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Mose Tolliver (1920-2006) was born in Alabama between 1920 and 1925, and created artwork his entire life. However, after a work-related accident in the late 1960s gravely injured his legs, he turned to painting to combat boredom and gave artmaking his full commitment. Tolliver began to create images with house paint on pieces of plywood, Masonite, or old furniture. His painted subjects included 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. Tolliver's painting style is referred to as flat, full frontal, or straight profile with a muted palette. As the years progressed, Tolliver became less dexterous and began to train his children to carry out his works.