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MOSE WORKED A VARIETY OF JOBS THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE, AS A GARDENER AND GENERAL HANDYMAN. WHILE SWEEPING UP FOR A FURNITURE COMPANY IN THE EARLY 1970'S, A LOAD OF MARBLE FELL ON MOSE'S LEGS, CRUSHING THEM. WHILE RECOVERING FROM HIS INJURY, AND PERHAPS INSPIRED BY AN ART SHOW HIS FORMER EMPLOYER TOOK HIM TO, MOSE BEGAN TO PAINT.
HE WOULD SIT IN HIS FRONT YARD, PAINTING THE NEIGHBORHOOD CHILDREN AND HANGING HIS PAINTINGS IN HIS YARD, HOPING TO SELL THEM FOR A DOLLAR OR TWO, OR PERHAPS TRADE THEM FOR A BAG OF RICE.
WORD SPREAD AND EVENTUALLY MOSE DEVELOPED A REPUTATION AS AN ARTIST. IN 1982, MOSE TOLLIVER WAS INCLUDED IN THE SEMINAL "BLACK FOLK ART IN AMERICA 1930-1980" SHOW AT THE SMITHSONIAN'S CORCORAN GALLERY. THIS CEMENTED MOSE'S PLACE AS ONE OF THE MAJOR SELF-TAUGHT ARTISTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY.
Our Art Gallery also has work by Reverend Howard Finster, Inez Nathaniel Walker, William Edmondson, Thornton Dial, Missionary Mary Proctor, Miz Thang, Nancy Valelly, R A Miller, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Mose Tolliver, folk pottery and all the great outsiders new or old.
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