Brown Bull with Blue Eye, 1939-1942

In the winter of 1979, R.H. Oosterom Gallery in New York exhibited Bill Traylor’s work. It was here that art historian Gylbert Coker fell in love with the artist and purchased Brown Bull. Coker published a review of the exhibition in Art in America stating, “His images, abstract ideas of life and reality, never imitate natural forms, but create new ones…Traylor, artist and storyteller, reflected that kind of energy in his work. He took life as it came and he painted life as he saw it.”