Mose Tolliver (AL, 1925-2006), Folk Art Watermelon Chair

A simple kitchen chair transformed into art with painting of watermelon slices, signed on the seat "MOSET".
32 1/2 x16 1/2 x 17 in.
Mose Tolliver was born to sharecroppers near Montgomery, Alabama. After a severe injury in the late 1960s, he turned to painting as a means to combat boredom and pain. Tolliver's work has been exhibited in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, American Folk Art Museum, New York, and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama.
Private Collection, Boone, North Carolina
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Some paint flakes to the seat.