mose-tolliver-alabama-1925-2006-jesus-entering-jerusalem-on-palm-sunday
Lot 1333
Mose Tolliver (Alabama, 1925-2006), Jesus Entering Jerusalem on Palm Sunday
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
House paint on plywood, signed at upper center and upper right.

48 x 96 in.

Originally from the Collection of Dr. Philip Golomb, Montgomery, Alabama

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.

Applied brace to back; some scattered paint chips to edges.