It Jes' Happened
When Bill Traylor Started to Draw
By Don Tate; R. Gregory Christie (Illustrator)
(Lee & Low Books, Hardcover, 9781600602603, 32pp.)
Publication Date: April 2012
Categories: Social Issues - Homelessness & Poverty, Art - Drawing, Biography & Autobiography - Art
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Description
A biography of self-taught (outsider) artist Bill Traylor, a former slave who at the age of eighty-five began to draw pictures based on his memories and observations of rural and urban life in Alabama.












