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Bill Traylor, Untitled (Yellow and Blue House with Figures and Dog), 1939, colored pencil on paperboard, 22 1⁄4 × 14 1⁄4 in. (56.5 × 36.2 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2016.14.5, © 1994, Bill Traylor Family Trust
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Artwork Details
- Title
- Untitled (Yellow and Blue House with Figures and Dog)
- Artist
- Date
- 1939
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 22 1⁄4 × 14 1⁄4 in. (56.5 × 36.2 cm)
- Copyright
- © 1994, Bill Traylor Family Trust
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
- Mediums Description
- colored pencil on paperboard
- Classifications
- Highlights
- Keywords
- Object — weapon — gun
- Architecture Exterior — domestic — house
- Dress — accessory — hat
- Animal — dog
- Recreation — leisure — smoking
- Figure group — male
- Object — tool — ladder
- Object Number
- 2016.14.5
Exhibitions
October 21, 2016–January 31, 2030
SAAM’s collection of folk and self-taught art represents the powerful vision of America’s untrained and vernacular artists. Represented in the museum’s collection are pieces that draw on tradition—such as quilts—as well as artworks that reveal a more personal vision.
September 27, 2018–April 7, 2019
Bill Traylor is regarded today as one of the most important American artists of the twentieth century. His drawn and painted imagery embodies the crossroads of multiple worlds: black and white, rural and urban, old and new. His life—which spanned slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow and the Great Migration and foreshadowed the era of Civil Rights—offers a rare perspective to the larger story of America.