Folk Art Painting, Mose Tolliver (Alabama 1919-2006), Self Portrait

House paint on plywood board, painted faux frame, signed vertically.

24 x 12 n.

Purchased from Mose Tolliver at his home in Montgomery, Alabama in the late 1980s

Tolliver worked with "pure house paint" on plywood creating whimsical characters and sometimes pictures of animals and flora, in a style of flat frontal views. Never able to walk well following his injury, he painted many self portraits with crutches.

Smudge of paint, likely original; some scratches.