Mose Tolliver, Angel, Paint on Plywood, 1995 Guemene-sur-Scorff open mouthed figure with sticks

open mouthed figure with sticks for arms and legs and an equally wonderful bird

There is a small nick in her bonnet from I think quite a while ago

but even more I love the wound string and long point at the end of this wooden dowel

it measures 3 3/16" wide x 1 5/8" tall

B Goodnow (or similar on the latter

Mose Tolliver, Angel, Paint on Plywood, 1995 Guemene-sur-Scorff open mouthed figure with sticksI 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