LibGuides: Fashion Design: AAS Exhibition Themes: Bill Traylor and American Folk/Outsider Art

American Folk Art Museum

The American Folk Art Museum: Bill Traylor and Outsider Art

Fall 2013

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Credo Reference

Search for Outsider Art, Folk Art, Art Brut and artists by name.

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Image Resources

American Folk Art Museum
The American Folk Art Museum, located at Columbus and 66th Street, the exhibitions Bill Traylor: Drawings from the Collections of the High Museum of Art and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts and Traylor in Motion: Wonders from New York Collections from June 11 through September 22, 2013.
The High Museum of Art: Permanent Folk Art Collection
The High Museum of Art in Atlanta holdsmany works by Traylor and other 20th and 21st Century self-taught artists, such as fellow Alabama folk artists,Thorton Dial and Howard Finster. There collection is searchable and browsable.
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts owns many Bill Traylor works. Click on "Art" and then "Collections" on the museum homepage to search the museum's collections.

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