mose-tolliver-american-1925-2006-horse-in-the-rain
Lot 562
Mose Tolliver (American, 1925-2006), Horse in the Rain
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Paint on board, signed at lower center, mounted and framed against a linen backing.

Panel 10 x 13 in.; Frame dimensions 15 x 18 in.

Private Collection, Raleigh, 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.

Minor areas of paint loss to edges of board.