Bill Traylor Outsider Artist Drawing on Paper. Size: 17 x 11 inches.This work is being offered as-is, as in manner of or as style of the artist. William -Bill- Traylor (April 1, 1853 October 23, 1949) Was an African-American self-taught artist from Lowndes County, Alabama. Born into slavery, Traylor spent the majority of his life after emancipation as a sharecropper. It was only after 1939, following his move to Montgomery, Alabama that Traylor began to draw. At the age of 85, he took up a pencil and a scrap of cardboard to document his recollections and observations. From 1939 to 1942, while working on the sidewalks of Montgomery, Good condition. See Photo.