Mose Tolliver Folk Art Outsider Table Birds Vintage Provenance Anton Haardt

Description

Tico Bird Table
by  Mose Tolliver  Outsider  Folk Art
Catalogue #2021 MT 002
Size:  14" x 19"  base  20" tall
Condition:
Good for age- Some nicks and minor  blemishes. See photos
Most of my  Mose Tolliver's   were -purchased directly from the artist  circa 1970- 2000. I plan  to list a few more Mose T's from my collection soon
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elf-taught artist Mose Tolliver approached his art if not in a singular fashion, then in a distinct manner from many other artists. After a debilitating accident in the late 1960s confined him to a wheelchair, Tolliver began using house paint, bought on sale, to create images of animals and nature; and he plopped his creations on pieces of plywood and poster board. This exercise of painting was meant to be therapeutic, but it proved to be the catalyst for the true artist within him to come forth. Tolliver then unashamedly displayed his creations in a fashion that was not so unusual in the South--he hung them from trees outside his house in Montgomery, Alabama. In 1981, Tolliver mounted his first one-man exhibit, at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.  Tolliver once said, "I'm not interested in art. I just want to paint my pictures."
--Clarence V. Reynolds,
Black Issues
Gallery owner Anton Haardt's admiration of Mose T's talent led to both a long friendship and working relationship and a book of Mose T's works. Mose Tolliver used to hang his paintings in a tree outside his home in Montgomery, Ala., pricing them at one or two dollars a piece," writes Anton Haardt in Mose T. From A to Z: The Folk Art of Mose Tolliver, a biography, lushly illustrated, by the woman whose eponymous Magazine Street gallery has perhaps the city's most extensive inventory of high-quality works by black Southern folk artists. In 1969 Haardt began buying pictures from Tolliver.  She would drive to New Orleans and sell them for . to Gaspari, who had a gallery in the Quarter. "Gaspari would sell them for a piece," she says. "I'd give all the money from the sales to Mose, and he would give me two paintings in return."In 1982, his works were displayed  in Washington, D.C., at the prestigious Corcoran Museum of Art's landmark exhibit Black Folk Art in America, 1930-1980.
--Jason Berry,
Gambit
Provenance:
From Anton Haardt  Collection
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