Blue and Black Self Portrait Mose Tolliver Painting sillhouette "Exposition d'art provencal au palais

"Exposition d'art provencal au palais des papes

Bert Gordon

Translation: On Peterhof Pier French Poster

Elisa Montés

Inspire by a song by Nico Saquito

Blue and Black Self Portrait Mose Tolliver Painting sillhouette "Exposition d'art provencal au palaisPart 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