Mose Ernest Tolliver (Mose T), Alabama (1920/25-2006), abstract bird figure, blackbird, paint on
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Mose Ernest Tolliver (Mose T) Alabama (1920/25-2006) abstract bird figure, blackbird paint on board Signed lower. Biography from the Smithsonian American Art Museum: In the late 1960s, Mose Tolliver was forced to retire from his job in a Montgomery, Alabama, furniture factory after a thousand-pound crate of marble fell from a forklift and crushed his legs. His former employer encouraged him to start painting, and Tolliver began to create images with house paint on pieces of plywood, Masonite, or old furniture. Unable to stand without crutches, he used to sit on his bed to paint, balancing the board on his knees. Recognition came in the 1980s with a solo show at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, and a folk art exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery, in Washington, D.C. Tolliver is known for his vibrant images of women, fantasy animals, and religious subjects, and he could paint up to ten pictures in one day. 9 3/4"H x 19"W
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Mose Ernest Tolliver (Mose T), Alabama (1920/25-2006), abstract bird figure, blackbird, paint on
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