Blue and Red Self Portrait Mose Tolliver Painting film reels the Abbaye aux Dames convent

the Abbaye aux Dames convent in Caen

English Translation: Feast of Folk

Printer - Vecchiona

Melanie Mayron

Blue and Red Self Portrait Mose Tolliver Painting film reels the Abbaye aux Dames conventPart 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