House with Figures and Animals (House with Figures; House with Figures and Snake)

Inscriptions

Inscribed [by Charles Shannon, dictated by artist], in graphite, verso lower center: 7/39 / goose grabs little boys penis through fence / boy ties himself to the calf who dashes / through a hole in fence-little boy caught; inscribed on label, in felt tip pen, verso upper right: D-23 HOUSE; inscribed [by another hand], verso upper left, in red pencil: [shaded circle] < 7

Course History

SART 20, SART 71, Drawing II, III, Summer 2013

WRIT 5, Poor Taste, William Boyer, Winter 2014

ARTH 17, The Power of Place: Urban and Rural Images in American Art, 1900-1945, Sarah Powers, Winter 2014

ARTH 71, The "American Century": Modern Art in the United States, Mary Coffey, Winter 2015

ARTH 71, The "American Century": Modern Art in the United States. Mary Coffey, Winter 2015

WRIT 5, On Poor Taste, William Boyer, Winter 2015

SART 15, Drawing I, Colleen Randall, Spring 2015

WRIT 5, On Poor Taste, William Boyer, Fall 2015

Studio Art 15.03, Drawing I, Andrew Shea, Fall 2023

Exhibition History

A Place for Us: Vernacular Architecture in American Folk Art, Museum of American Folk Art, New York, New York, (no cat.), 1996-1997.

A Space for Dialogue 91: (Re)Imagining Home, Elissa Watters, Class of 2015, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 24-December 6, 2015.

American Works on Paper to 1950: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 22-December 9, 2007.

Bill Traylor (1854-1947), Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock and Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi, no. 17 (as "House with Figures"), 1982.

Bill Traylor, A Vision Set Free, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington, (no cat.), 1997.

Bill Traylor, O'Kane Gallery, University of Houston-Downtown, Texas, (no cat. no.), 2001.

Bill Traylor: Drawings, Mennello Museum of American Folk Art, Orlando, Florida, (no cat.), 2003.

Bill Traylor: Paintings and Drawings, Luise Ross Gallery, New York, New York, no. 23 (as "House with Figures"), 1992.

Black Folk Artists: Minnie Evans & Bill Traylor, African American Museum, Nassau County Division of Museum Services, Hempstead, New York, (no cat. no.), 1989.

Black USA, Museum Overholland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, (no cat. no.), 1990.

Dream Singers, Story Tellers: An African-American Presence, Fukui Fine Arts Museum, Fukui, Japan, and others, no. 21 (as "House with Figures"), 1992.

Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 29-May 29, 2005; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, June 24-September 11, 2005; National Academy Museum, New York City, New York, October 20-December 31, 2005.

Ongoing Ousider Exhibition, Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago, Illinois, (no cat.), 2000.

Visionary Artists: Bill Traylor and Minnie Evans, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas, no. 8 (as "House with Figures"), 1992.

Publication History

Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Bill Traylor (1854-1947) (Little Rock: Arkansas Arts Center, 1982), n.p., back cover (illus.).

Luise Ross Gallery, New York, Bill Traylor: Exhibition History, Public Collections, Selected Bibliography (New York: Luise Ross Gallery, 1991), 20 (illus.).

Ricco-Maresca Gallery, New York, Bill Traylor: His Art-His Life (New York: Ricco-Maresca Gallery, 1991), 60 (color illus.).

Jane Livingston, "Black Folk Art in Amerika," Kunstforum International (May/June, 1991), 260 (illus.).

Carla Maria Verdino-Sullwold, "A Matter-of-Fact Strangeness: Bill Traylor at the Ross Galleries," Crisis 99.2 (February 1992), 9 (illus.).

Fukui Fine Arts Museum, Fukui, Japan, Dream Singers, Story Tellers: An African-American Presence (Fukui, Japan: Fukui Fine Arts Museum, 1992), 105 (color illus.), 225, 230.

O'Kane Gallery, University of Houston-Downtown, Texas, Bill Traylor (Houston, Texas: O'Kane Gallery, University of Houston-Downtown, 2001), n.p. (color illus.).

Betty M. Kuyk, African Voices in the African American Heritage (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2003), pl. 15 (color illus.).

Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction, Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, pp. 24, 42, 176, 268-269, ill. p. 177, no. 58.

Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 148, no. 120.

Mechal Sobel, Painting a Hidden Life: The Art of Bill Traylor, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009, ill. page unknown, no. 17.

Elissa Watters, A Space for Dialogue 91: (Re)Imagining Home, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2015, ill. title p., checklist no.6.

Valerie Rosseau and Debra Purden, Bill Traylor, New York: Folk Art Museum, 2018, ill. p. 129.

John R. Stomberg, The Hood Now: Art and Inquiry at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2019, p. 157, ill. plate no. 88.

Provenance

The artist; given to Charles Shannon, c. 1939; sold to Margo and Joseph Wilkinson, 1981; by settlement to Margo Russell Wilkinson, 1982; sold to Luise Ross Gallery, New York, 1986; sold to present collection, 2003.

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