Mose Tolliver, Angel, Paint on Plywood, 1995 litho toys i can’t stop looking at

i can’t stop looking at it

I'm guessing these doll eyes came from a prized doll that had great sentimental value to the person--or parent of the person--who managed to have them removed from the doll and mounted on this little stand

too small to be worn

Color lithography on a nice weight cardstock

but I really love an old village map with all of the structures and names of families drawn and written in

Mose Tolliver, Angel, Paint on Plywood, 1995 litho toys i can’t stop looking atI happened to come upon this Mose Tolliver at the estate sale of an artist and collector near me, and of course scooped it up. Moses Ernest Tolliver (1918 2006), better known as Mose T after the signature on his paintings, was raised as one of 12 children to sharecropper parents near Montgomery, Alabama. Following a severe injury at a furniture factory that crushed his legs, he turned to making paintings, using house paint on plywood, masonite, old