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"Untitled (Man Carrying Dog on Object)," Bill Traylor, c. 1939-1942.

Traylor (1853-1949) is someone I've talked about before...to give a quick summary, he was a Black man born into slavery, was a sharecropper most of his life, and only took up art at the age of 85, when he was an unhoused person on the streets of Montgomery, AL. He started to draw on scrap cardboard just to pass the time, but his work gathered notice and he actually had a show before he died. His work was rediscovered in the early 1980s and now he's hailed as one of the great self-taught Naive/Outsider artists.

Traylor's work can be bewildering; I've seen simple drawings of people and horses and then elaborate pictures of I-Don't-Know-What. Here we have a man carrying a dog on his head, on top of what looks like an urn. Maybe. What is it? What is the significance of the dog? Only Traylor would know....but then again, sometimes artists will just create and not think of meaning. Even David Lynch has said that the meanings of works like ERASERHEAD are unknown to him.

From the High Museum of Art, Atlanta.

A work of Outsider art, drawn on a piece of scrap cardboard. A man, walking with a cane, carries a large blue object on his head, resembling an urn. Atop it stands a dog. All is done in plain outlines, with no detail.
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