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Violence is pervasive in Traylor's art. People wield hatchets, clubs, or guns, they fall from heights, run from dogs, and flee into trees; sometimes they hang, lifeless. His images draw on the personal but describe an environment rife with peril and challenge. Lowndes County, Alabama, where Traylor lived and worked for much of his life, was the heart of the Jim Crow South, where racial persecution was commonplace. |