Untitled (Yellow and Blue House with Figures and Dog)

Media - 2016.14.5 - SAAM-2016.14.5_2 - 129305
Copied Bill Traylor, Untitled (Yellow and Blue House with Figures and Dog), 1939, colored pencil on paperboard, 22 14 × 14 14 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

Artwork Details

Title
Untitled (Yellow and Blue House with Figures and Dog)
Artist
Date
1939
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
22 14 × 14 14 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
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

Media - 1970.353.1-.116 - SAAM-1970.353.1-.116_9 - 127238
Galleries for Folk and Self-Taught Art
October 21, 2016January 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.
Media - 2016.14.5 - SAAM-2016.14.5_2 - 129305
Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor
September 27, 2018April 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.