"'Bill Traylor, William Edmondson, and the Modernist Impulse' is the first large-scale exhibition focusing on the works of two major figures in American and Afr

A sustained critical assessment of southern folk art and self-taught art and artists

A richly illustrated history of self-taught artists and how they changed American art Artists without formal training, who learned from family, community, and p

Born into slavery on an Alabama plantation in 1853, Bill Traylor worked as a sharecropper for most of his life. But in 1928 he moved to Montgomery and changed h

After World War I, artists without formal training “crashed the gates” of major museums in the United States, diversifying the art world across lines of rac