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Signed Mose Tolliver Tile Painting - Magical Plant
Signed Mose Tolliver Tile Painting - Magical Plant
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Mose Ernest Tolliver (American, 1919-2006). Untitled tile painting, ca. 1970s to 1980s. Signed at lower right. A rare tile painting depicting a whimsical flowering plant by self-taught Outsider Artist Mose Tolliver, sometimes referred to as "Mose T" like the signature on his paintings which also includes a backwards "S". While a flowering plant may not seem like an unusual subject, Tolliver's imaginative vision features an almost otherworldly plant with blooms of different shapes and colors - citrine, vermilion, and cornflower blue - set against a kaleidoscopic array of multi-colored raindrops against a sky blue ground. An outstanding example of Tolliver's vibrant fantasy imagery! Size: 11.375" L x 11.375" W (28.9 cm x 28.9 cm) Size of frame: 14.625" L x 14.625" W (37.1 cm x 37.1 cm)

Mose Tolliver was one of twelve children born to sharecroppers Ike and Laney Tolliver in the Pike Road community near Montgomery, Alabama. He only attended school until the third grade. According to Toliver, "I didn't like school. I remember I wanted to be outdoors working with my older brothers or even stacking wood … One thing I remember about our farm house - it was just a shack, but my Mama had pictures all over the walls." His family moved to Montgomery, Alabama in the thirties where he worked odd jobs to help support the family. He married his childhood friend Willie Mae Thomas in the forties, and the couple had thirteen children. Mose did not begin creating art until the sixties after suffering a serious injury to his legs when a load of marble fell from a forklift as he was sweeping in a furniture factory. Art provided Tolliver with solace from the pain and boredom that resulted from this tragic accident.

In the first article published about Tolliver he declared, "I'm not interested in art. I just want to paint my pictures." Nevertheless, the art world took notice. For example, Dr. Robert Bishop, former Director of the Museum of American Folk Art, stated about Mose's artworks, "You can hang him beside a Picasso, and you have the same kind of creativity and deep personal vision." (Montgomery Advertiser, February 1981). One year later, Toliver's work was included in the blockbuster exhibition entitled, "Black Folk Art in America 1930-1980" at Corcoran Gallery in Washington D.C. thus introducing him to the art world at large. Tolliver's artwork has been exhibited at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, the Philadelphia College of Art, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, the American Folk Art Museum in New York (a retrospective), and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. His works have been collected by Birmingham Museum of Art, Akron Art Museum, Smithsonian's National Museum of American Art, and University of Michigan Museum of Art.

Provenance: ex-private Bishop Family Trust collection, the Trust of the late Bill Bishop, a noted antiquarian with shops in Scottsdale, Arizona and Allenspark, Colorado, USA, acquired before 2010

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Condition
Signed by the artist at lower right. There is a crack across lower end of the tile that may have occurred before Tolliver painted the tile. Painted image is vivid. Frame shows surface wear with scuffs, chips, and abrasions. Wired for suspension and ready to display.
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Signed Mose Tolliver Tile Painting - Magical Plant

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