Paint on assembled plywood, signed "Moƨet " at lower center, comprised of two wood panels affixed cruciform depicting a central figure and pair of creatures at the transept, unframed.

24 x 14 1/2 in.

Tolliver was born one of 12 children to sharecropper parents at the Pike Road area near Montgomery, Alabama. His exact year of birth is unknown, though it is known he was born on the Fourth of July. During the late 1960s, after a severe injury having his legs crushed when a load of marble and fell from a forklift, Mose turned to painting to combat the pain and long hours of idle time.

Good estate condition.