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Original Mose Tolliver Outsider Art Painting. Hand-made wood cross construction with painted crowned figure and flanked by birds. Signed "Mose T"
Moses Ernest Tolliver (July 4, 1918-20 – October 30, 2006) was an American artist. He was known as "Mose T", after the signature on his paintings, signed with a backwards "s". He regularly worked with "pure house paint" on plywood, creating whimsical and sometimes erotic pictures of animals, humans, and flora. His familiar themes also included watermelons and birds. Tolliver's painting style is referred to as flat, full frontal or straight profile with a muted palette. Tolliver's themes were drawn from his own experience.
Tolliver's work has been exhibited in the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, and at the Philadelphia College of Art, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Relatives of Tolliver have imitated his style and signed their work as he did, making it sometimes difficult for collectors to find an original painting. His daughter Annie was also an artist.