# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bill-traylor
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:53:17.097Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bill-traylor"
name: "Bill Traylor"
slug: "bill-traylor"
description: "William Traylor was an African-American self-taught artist from Lowndes County, Alabama. Born into slavery, Traylor spent the majority of his life after emancipation as a sharecropper. It was only after 1939, following his move to Montgomery, Alabama, that Traylor began to draw. At the age of 85, he took up a pencil and a scrap of cardboard to document his recollections and observations. From 1939 to 1942, while working on the sidewalks of Montgomery, he produced nearly 1,500 pieces of art."
tagline: "African American artist and sharecropper (1854-1949)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1854-04-01"
deathDate: "1949-10-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.18
  momentum:             0.5738476011288806
  historical:           7.240464
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Traylor"
    title: "Bill Traylor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "بيل ترايلور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Traylor"
    title: "Bill Traylor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Traylor"
    title: "Bill Traylor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Traylor"
    title: "Bill Traylor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%99%D7%9C_%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%A8"
    title: "ביל טריילור"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Traylor"
    title: "Bill Traylor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Traylor"
    title: "Bill Traylor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q862623"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump