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
Subjects
  • Animal — dog
Object Number
2016.14.2

Works by this artist (240 items)

Paul Cadmus, Night in Bologna, 1958, egg tempera on fiberboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Sara Roby Foundation, 1986.6.87
Night in Bologna
Date1958
egg tempera on fiberboard
On view
Paul Cadmus, Aspects of Suburban Life: Golf, 1936, oil and tempera on fiberboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the U.S. Department of State, 1978.76.1
Aspects of Suburban Life: Golf
Date1936
oil and tempera on fiberboard
On view
Jared French, Margaret French, PaJaMa, Paul Cadmus, PaJaMa (Box A), ca. 1937, gelatin silver prints, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Margaret French, 1999.98.5.16
PaJaMa (Box A)
Dateca. 1937
gelatin silver prints
Not on view
Jared French, Margaret French, PaJaMa, Paul Cadmus, PaJaMa (Box A), ca. 1937, gelatin silver prints, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Margaret French, 1999.98.5.15
PaJaMa (Box A)
Dateca. 1937
gelatin silver prints
Not on view

Exhibitions

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.