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Mose Tolliver

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Mose Tolliver was able to stand only with the aid of crutches after a factory accident injured his legs in the late 1960s. He then began to paint, and the exaggerated legs and crutches in this self-portrait emphasize his physical disabilities. Tolliver often used unconventional materials in his paintings and here included pieces of his own hair around the head and upper lip.
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Image
Format:
Oil On Fiberboard With Human Hair
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Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson
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Smithsonian American Art Museum

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Smithsonian Institution

Keywords

  1. African American
  2. African Americans
  3. Ethnic
  4. Ethnicity
  5. Men
  6. Portrait Male
  7. Portraits
  8. Self Portrait
  9. Self Portraits
  10. Tolliver, Mose

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