Just before Steven Spielberg released his film version of Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple,” he gave the author a work of art that she now plans to auction off next month
In 1985, just before director Steven Spielberg released his film version of Alice Walker’s haunting coming-of-age book, “The Color Purple,” he gave the author a work of art that she now plans to auction off next month.
The 1939-42 work on paper, by self-taught artist and former slave Bill Traylor, depicts a feisty woman in a polka-dot blouse and brown skirt standing amid a page slathered with red paint. The woman’s arm juts out and points at a man in a top hat, smoking a pipe. Ms. Walker said she’s loved living with “a gift...
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