Mose Tolliver (AL, 1925-2006), Three Folk Art Watermelon Decorated Pieces

Two gourds (larger 13 in.) and a footstool (7 x 14 x 8 in.), all signed.

Private Collection, Boone, North Carolina

Mose Tolliver was born to sharecroppers near Montgomery, Alabama. After a severe injury in the late 1960s, he turned to painting as a means to combat boredom and pain. Tolliver's work has been exhibited in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, American Folk Art Museum, New York, and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama.

Footstool with thin paint at some edges.