Between worlds: the art of Bill Traylor

Lenders to the exhibition

Director's foreword

Preface

Notes to the reader

The beatitudes of Bill Traylor / Kerry James Marshall

Prologue

The life of Bill Traylor

Nineteenth-century Alabama and the world of Bill Traylor's parents

Bill Traylor's adult life and family, 1880-1949

The art of Bill Traylor

Early work, ca. 1939-1940: plates 4-70

Florescence, ca. 1940-1942: plates 71-197

Art in the final years, 1942-1949

Afterlife: the posthumous success of Bill Traylor's art: plates 198-204

Timeline and family trees

List of plates

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Image credits

Index.