Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

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.

Publisher, Date:

New York, NY : Kino Lorber, [2021]

Description:

1 videodisc (76 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

video file

DVD video

Region 1

Summary:

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.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: Not rated.

Subjects:

Traylor, Bill, 1854-1949.

Folk artists -- United States -- Biography.

Folk art -- United States -- History.

African American folk art -- History.

African American artists -- Biography.

Enslaved persons -- United States -- Biography.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Biographical films.