Blue and Red Self Portrait Mose Tolliver Painting Style:U.S.A., c. 1995 Anna-Maria Montecelli

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Blue and Red Self Portrait Mose Tolliver Painting Style:U.S.A., c. 1995 Anna-Maria MontecelliPart of Tolliver's untitled self portrait series. Mose Tolliver was a self taught folk artist whose works are in museums ranging from the Met to the Smithsonian. His childhood did not set him up for the success he later found in the art world he was born to sharecropper parents in Alabama and dropped out of school in the 3rd grade. Until around the age of 45 he worked labor intensive jobs. It was only when his legs were crushed by marble that he began