Mose Tolliver (American, 1925-2006), Family Portrait

Polychrome paint on panel, signed at lower edge, unframed.

15 x 23 1/4 in.

Private Collection of a Lady, Asheville, 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 estate condition, minor abrasions to the panel.