Untitled (Dog Fight with Writing)

Bill Traylor, Untitled (Dog Fight with Writing), ca. 1939-1940, opaque watercolor and pencil on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2016.14.2, © 1994, Bill Traylor Family Trust
Bill Traylor, Untitled (Dog Fight with Writing), ca. 1939-1940, opaque watercolor and pencil on paperboard, 21 × 22 in. (53.3 × 55.9 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2016.14.2, © 1994, Bill Traylor Family Trust

Artwork Details

Title
Untitled (Dog Fight with Writing)
Artist
Date
ca. 1939-1940
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
21 × 22 in. (53.3 × 55.9 cm)
Copyright
© 1994, Bill Traylor Family Trust
Credit Line
Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
Mediums Description
opaque watercolor and pencil on paperboard
Classifications
Highlights
Subjects
  • Animal — dog
Object Number
2016.14.2
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/2016.14.2

Works by this artist (17 items)

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Bill Traylor, Untitled (Brown Pig), April 1940, opaque watercolor and pencil on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Margaret Z. Robson Collection, Gift of John E. and Douglas O. Robson, 2016.38.70, © 1994, Bill Traylor Family Trust
Untitled (Brown Pig)
Artist
DateApril 1940
opaque watercolor and pencil on paperboard
Not on view
Bill Traylor, Untitled (Radio), ca. 1940-1942, opaque watercolor and pencil on printed advertising paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2016.14.4, © 1994, Bill Traylor Family Trust
Untitled (Radio)
Artist
Dateca. 1940-1942
opaque watercolor and pencil on printed advertising paperboard
Not on view
Bill Traylor, Untitled (Red Goat with Snake), ca. 1940-1942, opaque watercolor and pencil on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Judy A. Saslow, 2016.15, © 1994, Bill Traylor Family Trust
Untitled (Red Goat with Snake)
Artist
Dateca. 1940-1942
opaque watercolor and pencil on paperboard
Not on view
Bill Traylor, Untitled (Man, Woman, and Dog), 1939, crayon and pencil on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr., and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson, 1986.65.199, © 1994, Bill Traylor Family Trust
Untitled (Man, Woman, and Dog)
Artist
Date1939
crayon and pencil on paperboard
Not on view

Exhibitions

Media - 2016.14.5 - SAAM-2016.14.5_2 - 129305
Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor
September 27, 2018–April 7, 2019
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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.

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