Annie Tolliver Oil Folk Painting "Self-Portrait"

Item Details

Annie Tolliver (American, b. 1950)
Self-Portrait, 1993
Oil on wood
Signed to lower right and to verso
Titled and dated to verso

A Folk oil painting on wood titled Self-Portrait by self-taught artist Annie Tolliver (b. 1950), created in 1993. Portrayed in a simplified style similar to her father’s, this work features a frontal full-length portrait of the artist. The work is signed ‘Annie T.’ to the lower right and to the verso. It is also titled to the verso and specifically dated ‘March 19. / 1993’. The board remains unframed.

Daughter of the renowned folk artist Mose Tolliver (Alabama; 1925-2006), Annie Tolliver dropped out of school at age seventeen and made a living cleaning houses, motels, restaurants, and hospitals. In her childhood, she spent time drawing and making clay objects, and created art in the style of her father’s until the 1990s, when she was encouraged by an art dealer to develop a unique style of her own. Her work has been collected and exhibited by the New Orleans Museum of Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, the House of Blues, and the Strombecker Corporation, among other institutions and galleries.

Condition

- natural grain and knots in wood; scratch marks and negligible stains scattered throughout.

Dimensions

Item #

19DCC100-631