Bill Traylor (1854-1949)

Signed Bill Traylor, in pencil, top left.

The Estate of the artist;
Luise Ross, American Art, New York, 1985

Bronx, New York, The City University of New York, “Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution”, Bergen Community Museum, Genesis II Museum, 1981

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