Artwork Details
- Title
- Self-Portrait
- Artist
- Date
- 1985
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 24 1⁄2 x 16 7⁄8 in. (62.2 x 42.9 cm.)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson
- Mediums Description
- oil on fiberboard with human hair
- Classifications
- Keywords
- African American
- Portrait male — Tolliver, Mose — self-portrait
- Object Number
- 1986.65.142
Artwork Description
Mose Tolliver was able to stand only with the aid of crutches after a factory accident injured his legs in the late 1960s. He then began to paint, and the exaggerated legs and crutches in this self-portrait emphasize his physical disabilities. Tolliver often used unconventional materials in his paintings and here included pieces of his own hair around the head and upper lip.