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1950 Montgomery, Alabama - 2018. Known for: Naive animal, figure.
Annie Mural Tolliver is the daughter of renowned artist, Mose Tolliver and Willie Mae Tolliver. She can vividly remember as a child drawing animals with sticks in the dirt, and making clay houses and... Read full biography
Annie Mural Tolliver is the daughter of renowned artist, Mose Tolliver and Willie Mae Tolliver. She can vividly remember as a child drawing animals with sticks in the dirt, and making clay houses and figures around their Sternfield Alley house. "This was one of my favorite ways to pass the time."... Read full biography
Annie Mural Tolliver is the daughter of renowned artist, Mose Tolliver and Willie Mae Tolliver. She can vividly remember as a child drawing animals with sticks in the dirt, and making clay houses and figures around their Sternfield Alley house. "This was one of my favorite ways to pass the time." She attended school through the ninth grade, but dropped out to become a mother at age seventeen, and to marry artist L.W. Crawford. While rearing her three children there was little time to paint.... Read full biography
Annie Mural Tolliver is the daughter of renowned artist, Mose Tolliver and Willie Mae Tolliver. She can vividly remember as a child drawing animals with sticks in the dirt, and making clay houses and figures around their Sternfield Alley house. "This was one of my favorite ways to pass the time." She attended school through the ninth grade, but dropped out to become a mother at age seventeen, and to marry artist L.W. Crawford. While rearing her three children there was little time to paint. Annie worked cleaning houses, hospitals, restaurants and motels. "I was very interested in my daddy's work. He would often show us how he painted things and encouraged all of us in the family to try painting also." Through years of being exposed to her... Read full biography
Annie Mural Tolliver is the daughter of renowned artist, Mose Tolliver and Willie Mae Tolliver. She can vividly remember as a child drawing animals with sticks in the dirt, and making clay houses and figures around their Sternfield Alley house. "This was one of my favorite ways to pass the time." She attended school through the ninth grade, but dropped out to become a mother at age seventeen, and to marry artist L.W. Crawford. While rearing her three children there was little time to paint. Annie worked cleaning houses, hospitals, restaurants and motels. "I was very interested in my daddy's work. He would often show us how he painted things and encouraged all of us in the family to try painting also." Through years of being exposed to her father's paintings, she and her brothers, Charles and Jimmy, took the greatest interest in his work. "My paintings were sold as Mose T's work f... Read full biography
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Keywords (13)
Art Media
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Folk Art, Folk Lore
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Animal Specialty
- •Figure Specialty
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Black, African-American and/or Caribbean