Moose Lady - Mose Tolliver Beaded Folk art scholar Regenia Perry

Folk art scholar Regenia Perry has contributed a preface on the significance and appeal of Tolliver's work

Acrylic paint and seal with a gloss finish

"Locomotives behind artists are as necessary as the art itself

In his original 1910 etching of La Catrina

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Moose Lady - Mose Tolliver Beaded Folk art scholar Regenia PerryMoose Lady Painted wood Vintage, signed Mose worked with "pure house paint" on plywood, creating whimsical, haunting and sometimes erotic pictures of wonderfully balanced animals, humans, and flora. A "Quail Bird" may glide over a cotton field or a spread leg "Diana" may be straddled over "An Exercise Rack Bicycle." Self portraits with crutches is a repeated image. He often would turn his paintings upside down and paint his picture positioned from