TAXI !!!

These taxis are waiting for the light on Columbus Avenue at West 65th Street in Manhattan. (There are at least 7 of them in the picture.) Lincoln Center is behind me, and I am about to cross to the American Museum of Folk Art across the street to the left (out of sight).

There I saw a very moving exhibition of drawings by Bill Traylor (1854-1949). He was born into slavery in Alabama and after emancipation continued to live on a plantation until the 1930s. After moved to Montgomery, where he drew regularly on the street, and attracted the attention of Charles Shannon, a local artist, who brought him to the attention of the wider world. My father grew up in Alabama, and so the show struck a particular chord for me.