In 1939 he received a fellowship from the
Julius Rosenwald Foundation to paint subjects in the American South. The mission of the school was to "broaden cultural life of Southerners of all classes and develop a wider market in the South for arts and crafts". Shannon taught painting and drawing at the school. Shannon bought much of Traylor's work for as little as five cents per drawing. Shannon was sued in 1992 by Traylor's heirs, who claimed Shannon had improperly obtained Traylor's work. The suit was settled in 1993, with Shannon agreeing to transfer a dozen of Traylor's works, then valued at $10,000 to $25,000 US dollars each, to Traylor's heirs. A curator at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Margaret Lynne Ausfeld, has said of Shannon's efforts that “Without Charles Shannon, there would have been little or nothing to interpret—most or all of the work certainly would have been lost”. His work is included in the collections of the
Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts. ==References==