Mose Tolliver, Angel, Paint on Plywood, 1995 woven brush 30 1/2" t x 10

30 1/2" t x 10 1/2" w x 5/8" d

I especially love the blue rimmed button at top giving her a tiny head

with the yellow squares hand-stitched onto the very dark blue

When are you coming over

another thinking that it likely dates to the last quarter of the 19th century

Mose Tolliver, Angel, Paint on Plywood, 1995 woven brush 30 1/2" t x 10I happened to come upon this Mose Tolliver at the estate sale of an artist and collector near me, and of course scooped it up. Moses Ernest Tolliver (1918 2006), better known as Mose T after the signature on his paintings, was raised as one of 12 children to sharecropper parents near Montgomery, Alabama. Following a severe injury at a furniture factory that crushed his legs, he turned to making paintings, using house paint on plywood, masonite, old