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Mountains and Pack-a-Mules Trees, and a French Bird and a Peko Bird

Mose Tolliver
  • MT - Mountains and Pack-a-Mules Trees, and a French Bird and a Peko Bird - Master Image

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    Photo: Gamma One Conversions
c. 1980
Housepaint on found poster print with wood frame
24 x 34 inches
Collection of
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Adolph D. and Wilkins C. Williams Fund and partial gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation
Description

Tolliver’s aesthetic sensibility allows his “going into” (painting in or over, embellishing) paintings, photographs, and prints brought to him, and he approaches these paintings with a special flair, adding a bird or two here, a flower there. In Mountains and Pack-a-Mules Trees, and a French Bird and a Peko Bird, he painted over a discarded department store print, simplifying the ground and tree areas and adding two overhead birds.