Details

Title

Untitled

Artist/Maker

Bill Traylor (American, 1854–1949)

Date

undated

Medium

Graphite and black gouache on cardboard

Dimensions

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Credit

Gift of Leo Rabkin in memory of Dorothea Rabkin

Accession #

2016.216

On View

Currently not on view

Three revelers vie for a drink in this animated scene. On top of a porch denoted by a blue trapezoid, one man begs another to share, while a third smartly hides underneath the porch to avoid them. This is an example of Traylor’s “exciting events”—multifigure scenes that show people partying, fighting, hunting, and the like.

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