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Next-to-New currently has two wonderful and whimsical works from outsider artists, father Mose Tolliver, and his daughter, Annie. Mose Tolliver, also known as Mose T., was a self-taught Alabama artist renown for his vibrant and imaginative folk paintings of people, religious subjects, and animals. He was born in Pike Road, Alabama, the child of sharecroppers. His exact birthday is unknown, but is thought to be between 1918 to 1925. In the 1960s, following an accident at an Alabama furniture factory that left him unable to stand or walk without crutches, Mose began to paint, using house paint on pieces of salvaged board or Masonite. A prolific artist, he gained recognition in the 1980s, following exhibitions at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts and the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C. Mose died in 2006. His works are part of permanent collections throughout the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Smithsonian National Museum of American Art, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Loss Angeles. 

The fantastical fish, boldly painted on board, is signed with Mose's typical signature, including the reversed "s."

Annie Tolliver (1950-2018) was inspired by her father. As a child, she loved to draw, but dropped out of school in the ninth grade to marry and start a family. Originally, Annie worked with her father, painting in his style and using his signature, but in 1990, encouraged by an art dealer, she began to create under her own name. Like her father, Annie often uses salvaged wood and house paint. She is known for her brightly colored imaginative paintings, often with humorous subjects and titles. Annie passed away on March 13, 2018. 

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