Contemporary items with painted decoration, all signed: a wall shelf (13 1/4 in.); two lidded boxes (lid of larger does not close); a cafeteria tray (17 3/4 in.).

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.

Good condition but for larger tray.