Bill Traylor : chasing ghosts / a film by Jeffrey Wolf ; Breakaway Films presents ; directed and produced by Jeffrey Wolf ; written by Fred Barron ; producer, Daphne McWilliams, Jeany Nisenholz-Wolf, Fred Barron.
Bill Traylor was born into slavery in 1853 on a cotton plantation in rural Alabama, and continued to farm the land until the late 1920s when he moved to Montgomery and worked odd jobs in the thriving segregated black neighborhood. A decade later, in his late 80s, Traylor became homeless and started to draw and paint, devising his visual language to depict his memories of slavery and scenes of a radically changing urban culture, becoming one of America's most prolific and essential artists.
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