Big Man Walking
1940 · Crayon and gouache on board
14 1/4 x 10" (36.2 x 25.4 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Bill Traylor
Artist
WA-00030777
PaintingNaive ArtOutsider Art
Representation
None documented
0
Institutional Exhibitions
21
Works in Collection
37
Assets Indexed
2
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
80%
Profile Completeness
Cultural Positioning
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Authority Records (3)
Field Verification (2 fields)
0 cross-verified · 2 single-source
- BiographyGallery Generic· 72%
- LocationGallery Generic· 72%
Source Registry (3)
- SothebysTier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
- David-KordanskyTier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
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Taste overlap and adjacency
Movement
Naive Art
Medium
Painting
Related Artists
12 in graph
Institutional
Museum Collections
Canonical record
Artworks (21)
Yellow Chicken
1939 · Gouache and pencil on board
14 3/4 × 8 7/8" (37.5 × 22.5 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
Fat Man in Blue
1939 · Gouache and pencil on board
13 5/8 x 13 3/8" (34.6 x 34 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
Artwork sources (3)
21 published of 34 catalogued · 24 with image
- MoMA13 publishedof 26 catalogued23 img
- The Met7 published
- Art Institute Chicago1 published1 img
Record
Images
Relationships
5Institutional
Representation & Collections
In collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In collection
Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
In collection
Art Institute of Chicago
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