Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts
Thought-Provoking Documentaries
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1h 15m
Directed by Jeffrey Wolf • Documentary • 2018 • US • English
Featuring Russell G. Jones, Sharon Washington, Jason Samuels Smith
This illuminating documentary tells the incredible story of Bill Traylor, a former slave who turned to drawing at age 85, creating colorful, strikingly modernist work that eventually led him to be recognized as one of America’s greatest self-taught artists and the subject of a Smithsonian retrospective.
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