拍品专文
After a lifetime on a plantation, former slave Bill Traylor (1854-1949) moved to Montgomery, Alabama. From a doorstep on Monroe Street he rendered starkly modernist animals, architectural elements, dancing, drinking and fighting figures, and other images evoking his current and previous experiences. Untitled (Brown Construction with Figures and Dog) is one of Traylor's 'exciting events'. The image is animated and alive, with figures hanging and balancing precariously with energetically pointed fingers while a barking dog center the scene, wagging his tail.