by Don Tate, R. Gregory Christie
This book joins others in an effort to lend depth and breadth to the African American biography selection. Biography of vital yet less mythical figures is an important movement in historical fiction. Traylor's outsider art is an obvious inspiration for Christie's folk art style. Christie avoids mimi...
Bill Traylor was eighty-one years old when, out of the blue, he began to draw. He'd saved up memories of a lifetime, memories of Sunday morning church services and swimming in the river with his friends and picking cotton on the farm, and he suddenly began to draw little pictures of fighting cats an...
An excellent introduction to Bill Traylor, an ex-slave, sharecropper and self-taught artist who is now recognized as an important African-American folk artist. He's also a classic late bloomer having not started drawing and painting until in his early 80s.
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