Mose Tolliver

 Mose Tolliver, one of the elder statesmen of folk art, was born July 4, 1915 (to 1920 - the exact date and year are in question) in Pike Road community near Pintala, Alabama. Mose T, as he has become known, moved to Montgomery as a teenager soon after his father died and worked there for many years as a gardener, farmer, and house painter before an accident in the late 1960’s left him with crushed legs and precipitated a period of drunken depression. Encouraged by a former employer to take up painting, Mose T picked up a paintbrush, found his calling and the world of folk art was forever enriched. A self taught artist, Mose began to paint in his trademark 2 to 3 color palette of housepaint, compulsively creating his own unique paintings of birds, snakes, flowers and tree forms - later adding people and other animals. Since the early 1980’s his works have been widely exhibited in many folk art galleries and museums and have been increasingly collected over the years. Mose Tolliver is recognized today as one of the most important folk artists in the nation.  

Mose Tolliver is part of numerous permanent folk art collections including:
Birmingham Museum of Art
Akron Art Museum
Smithsonian's National Museum of American Art

Many folk art exhibitions show Mose Tolliver works including:
Retrospective, American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY
Passionate Visions of the American South, New Orleans, LA

Southern Visionary Folk Art Gallery is priviledged to offer these works by

Mose Tolliver and greatly saddened to hear of his passing on October 30, 2006.

These Mose Tolliver works and others that are not currently shown here are part of a collection that we acquired from a Montgomery family who took them in trade from Mose over a period of years. Please e-mail the gallery for more information.

 

Sunflowers

(#40)

12" x 24"

$695

house paint on wood

 

"Tiger Toil and Gold Fish"

(#11)

house paint on round wood

24" in diameter - 5/8" thick

house paint on wood

SSO$1500LD

 

"Bus"

(#229)

21" x 11 5/8"

house paint on wood

irregular shape

$975

"Pink Eagle"

(#12)

24" in diameter by 5/8" thick

house paint on wood

$1500

George Washington

(#100)

12" x 24"

house paint on wood

$875

 

Martha Washington

(#53)

12" x 24"

house paint on wood

$875

 

 

 

 

Angel Chair

Painted old oak school house chair

$975

 

 

 

Pot Bellied Stove

(#88)

14 1/2" x 14 1/2"

house paint on wood

$450

Red Bird

(#224)

12" x 11"

house paint on wood

$395

 

 

"Poppies"

(#41)

12" x 24"

house paint on wood

$700

Noah's Ark

(#542)

24" x 15 1/4"

house paint on wood

$875

Tiger Toil

(#25)

12" x 24"
house paint on wood
$725

Lady With Purse

(#121)

12 1/4" x 36"

$1200

Star Flowers & Magnolia Blossoms

(#114)

24" x 23 3/4"

house paint on wood

Circa 1976

$2400

 


"Angel"

(#212)

12" x 24"

house paint on wood

SOLD

Snowman

(#545)

21 1/4" x 22"
house paint on wood

Circa 1988

$875

 

Bonsai Tree

(#43)

12" x 24"

house paint on wood

$700

Spotted Turtle

(#230)

20 1/2" x 18"

house paint on wood

$700

 

Angel

(#20)

12” x 24”
house paint on wood

$1150

 

Red Watermelon

(#96)

15 3/4" x 8 1/4"

house paint on wood

$550

Yellow Fan Flowers

(#3)

13" x 12"
house paint on wood

$475

 

Turkey

(#57)

23 ¾” x 11 ¼”
house paint on wood

$675

Candy Man

(#113)

17" x 32"
house paint on wood
Mid 1980's

$1500

Chili Peppers

(#92)

18 1/2" x 11 3/4"

house paint on wood

$675

Self Portrait

(#15)

12" x 24"

house paint on wood

$1200

Self Portrait

(#26)

12" x 24"
house paint on wood

$1200

Flower Tree

(#72)

12" x 24"
house paint on wood
$850

Black Lady

(#16)

12” x 24”
house paint on wood
$875

Eagle on branch

(#89)
19" x 14 1/2"

Mid 1980's
house paint on wood
SOLD

Green Moose Lady

(#264)

18 5/8” x 11 ¾”
1982
house paint on scrap wood paneling
$975

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