Traylor’s work is often ambiguous: In 1939’s Untitled (Yellow and Blue House with Figures and Dog), the top character may be a servant—or Death itself. Photo by Gene Young Blacksmith Shop, c.

Bill Traylor was an American painter and one of the most celebrated Outsider artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. With his unique figurative style, Traylor depicted a lost era of the rural agrarian ...

On a recent weekday near the end of January, Jeff Bruce, curator at Macon’s Tubman African American Museum and Matt Harper ..