Mail Carrier Bird

Art

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Gadsden Arts Center & Museum

Name/Title

Mail Carrier Bird

Entry/Object ID

2017.3.18

Description

In Mail Carrier Bird, Mose Tolliver depicted a whimsical rendering of a bird, the wings' tense stance suggesting the bird is about to take flight. Tolliver used a muted palate of red, dusty pink, and maroon for the bird's body, choosing to accent its wings in a soft teal blue. A brown border drawn around the wood encases and frames the bird within the center of the piece, grounding it in a static space.

Artwork Details

Medium

plywood, paint

Collection

Southern Vernacular Art Collection

Acquisition

Accession

2017.3

Source or Donor

Hill, Lou and Calynne

Acquisition Method

Gift

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Tolliver, Mose

Role

Artist

Date made

n.d.

Dimensions

Height

17-1/2 in

Width

20 in

Interpretative Labels

Label

Mose Tolliver (1920-2006) Born in Alabama in 1920, Tolliver claimed to have been creating artwork his entire life. His images are created on house-paint encrusted pieces of plywood and include sexually explicit images of women, self-portraits, buses, birds, snakes, and fruit. He would attach these images to the tab of a soda or beer can as a hanging device. As the years progressed, Tolliver became less dexterous and began to train his children to carry out his works.

Created By

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Create Date

January 26, 2017