Mose Tolliver

Mose Tolliver (c. 1920–2006) was a self-taught American artist from Montgomery, Alabama, known for his bold, graphic paintings on found materials like plywood and tabletops. After a workplace injury in the late 1960s left him partially disabled, he began painting at home, developing a distinctive style filled with birds, animals, figures, and symbolic forms. Once selling his work from his front yard, Tolliver gained national recognition in the 1980s and is now considered a major figure in American folk and outsider art.