About the artwork:
This cotton-blend throw blanket is a collaboration with the Estate of Bill Traylor (1853–1949, Alabama), the renowned African-American folk artist. The blanket was knit in the USA featuring Traylor's Blue Rabbit Running, a painting he made on cardboard around 1939-1942. Today, he is celebrated as one of the most important self-taught artists in American history, his work held in important collections and exhibited at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
About the artist:
Bill Traylor (1853–1949) was a self-taught artist whose remarkable body of work offers a vivid, unfiltered glimpse into the life and rhythms of the American South. Born into slavery on an Alabama plantation, Traylor lived through Reconstruction, segregation, and the Great Migration, all while carrying an unshaken sense of observation and storytelling.
Traylor’s work captures moments of everyday existence—men in top hats, women dancing, dogs in motion—imbued with movement, symbolism, and a narrative depth that suggests a lifetime of memories compressed into simple yet powerful compositions. His art was not just an act of expression but a means of preservation, a way to document a world that was rapidly changing around him.
Despite his prolific output, Traylor’s work was largely overlooked until the 1980s, when scholars and curators began to recognize the significance of his contributions. Today, he is celebrated as one of the most important self-taught artists in American history, his work exhibited in major institutions such as the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Museum of Modern Art.
Specs:
This cotton-blend throw blanket is a collaboration with the Estate of Bill Traylor (1853–1949, Alabama), the renowned African American folk artist. The blanket was knit in the USA featuring Traylor’s Blue Rabbit Running, a painting he made on cardboard around 1939-1942. Today, he is celebrated as one of the most important self-taught artists in American history, his work held in important collections and exhibited at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.More
- Made in USA in small batches by a family-owned company that has operated knitting mills since the early 1900s.
- Due to the limited-edition nature of this product, all sales are final.
- Care instructions: Machine wash on cold/delicate cycle; hang dry. Machine drying may cause shrinkage but will not otherwise damage the blanket.
