The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., has acquired six works by one of the most celebrated self-taught artists, Bill Traylor. Traylor, who spent most of his life as a sharecropper on the Alabama plantation where he was born, is known for his animated scenes of people running, climbing, fighting, yelling, poking, and drinking. Inspired by his memories of life on the plantation as well as the world around him, Traylor’s works provide glimpses of a long-gone African-American culture in the rural Deep South. The works acquired by the Smithsonian will be featured in the major Traylor exhibition Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor, which is slated to open March 16, 2018.