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It Jes’ Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw

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Growing up as an enslaved boy on an Alabama cotton farm, Bill Traylor worked all day in the hot fields. When slavery ended, Bill s circle of relatives stayed on the farm as sharecroppers. There Bill grew to manhood, raised his own circle of relatives, and cared for the land and his animals. By 1935 Bill used to be eighty-all and sundry alone on his farm. So he packed his bag and moved to Sir Bernard Law, the capital of Alabama. Lonely and poor, he wandered the busy downtown streets. But deep within himself Bill had a reservoir of memories of working and living on the land, and soon those memories blossomed into pictures. Bill began to attract people, places, and animals from his earlier life, in addition to scenes of the city around him. Today Bill Traylor is regarded as to be one of the vital important self-taught American folk artists. Winner of Lee & Low s New Voices Award Honor, It Jes Happened is a full of life tribute to this man who has enriched the world with more than twelve hundred warm, energetic, and incessantly humorous pictures.

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