Mose Ernest Tolliver

(American, b. ca. 1919–2006)

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Mose Ernest Tolliver

Scooter Girl

Biography

Timeline

1915
Born near Pintala, Alabama
1960
Crate of marble crushed his legs while working in a furniture factory, late 1960's
2006
Died October 30 in Montgomery, Alabama
Mt. Olive school in Alabama through the third grade

Exhibitions

2008
Pure Paint: A Grand Retrospective of Montgomery’s Mose T, Jule Collins Smith Museum, Auburn, AL
1997
Flying Free: Twentieth-Century Self-Taught Art, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg, VA
1993
Retrospective, Museum of American Folk Art, New York, NY
1987
Baking in the Sun, Visionary Images from the South, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1982
Black American Folk Art 1930 - 1980, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1981
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts (Solo)