A Celebration of Bill Traylor’s Art | QuazenBill Traylor drew for the love of art. He was born into slavery and after he was too old to work in the plantation, he relocated to Montgomery Alabama, where he drew 1,200 known pieces of art. He drew from memories of plantation life and probably from his own experiences. His drawings of males and females were animated with flashing fingers and animated body language. Charles Shannon recalled that once Traylor observed of such scenes, "She’s not asking him, she’s telling him."
