Mose Tolliver, Angel, Paint on Plywood, 1995 woven brush as will the ball

as will the ball

Believed to bring good luck

It seems possible that untying the lace would allow it to come apart some to empty it

Made of fruit woods I believe

Mose Tolliver, Angel, Paint on Plywood, 1995 woven brush as will the ballI 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