Original MOSE T Tolliver - SELF PORTRAIT - Alabama self-taught folk artist - $200 - (Bessemer, AL)
Original MOSE T (Mose Tolliver) SELF PORTRAIT Painted on ceramic tile. Dimensions: 6" x 6" Unusual medium for Tolliver. One of three Mose painted tiles I purchased at Collaborations Gallery (Seagrove Beach, FL) in the late 1990s. "Folk artist Mose Tolliver's subjects were nature, people and animals. His medium was house paint. His canvasses were cabinet doors and discarded table tops. His paintings began as a release from depression and drink, but put him at the forefront of the Outsider Art movement... Starting in the 1960s, Tolliver began painting, hanging his work in his front yard, selling them for a few dollars each. He signed them "Mose T," with a distinctive backward "S." Today, many of those paintings are valued in the thousands of dollars. He was discovered by the world outside Alabama when his work was featured in a 1982 exhibition of Black American Folk Art at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C. His paintings hang today at the American Folk Art Museum in New York, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Smithsonian Institution and the New Orleans Museum of Art. His painting style often featured the same images of self-portraits (often featured with crutches), birds and watermelon." - Excerpted from NPR "All Things Considered" Nov. 5, 2006
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