Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts

6.0 2021 | 75 min

Documentary

This illuminating documentary explores the life of a unique American artist, a man with a remarkable and unlikely biography. Bill Traylor was born into slavery in 1853 on a cotton plantation in rural Alabama. After the Civil War, Traylor continued to farm the land as a sharecropper until the late 1920s. Aging and alone, 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, both memories from plantation days and scenes of a radically changing urban culture. He made well over a thousand drawings and paintings between 1939-1942. This colorful, strikingly modernist work eventually led him to be recognized as one of America’s greatest self-taught artists and the subject of a Smithsonian retrospective.

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Title: Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts
Original Title: Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts
Year: 2021
Release Date: April 16, 2021
Rating: 6.0/10 (1 votes)
Popularity: 0.2
Runtime: 75 minutes
Genres: Documentary
Director(s): Jeffrey Wolf
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Country: United States of America
Budget: N/A
Revenue: $4,504
Status: Released
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TMDB ID: 817690
IMDB ID: tt9108510
IMDB Link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9108510
TMDB Link: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/817690
Official Site: http://www.billtraylorchasingghosts.com/
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This illuminating documentary explores the life of a unique American artist, a man with a remarkable and unlikely biography. Bill Traylor was born into slavery in 1853 on a cotton plantation in rural Alabama. After the Civil War, Traylor continued to farm the land as a sharecropper until the late 1920s. Aging and alone, 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, both memories from plantation days and scenes of a radically changing urban culture.  He made well over a thousand drawings and paintings between 1939-1942. This colorful, strikingly modernist work eventually led him to be recognized as one of America’s greatest self-taught artists and the subject of a Smithsonian retrospective.
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