Annie Tolliver (American 1950 - 2018) Alabama Outsider Folk Art Painting of a Watermelon

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Annie Tolliver (American 1950 - 2018) Alabama outsider folk art painting on board of a watermelon. Signed lower right, titled … Read more Annie Tolliver (American 1950 - 2018) Alabama outsider folk art painting on board of a watermelon. Signed lower right, titled verso. Measures 13 7/8" x 7 7/8" x 3/8". Self framed with a painted black edge and side. Good condition.

Annie Mural Tolliver was the daughter of artist Mose Tolliver and Willie Mae Tolliver. She remembered 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.

Annie’s work has been included in many books and exhibitions including one organized by the American Women’s Museum in Washington, D.C., which toured the country. She put her art career aside for several years to care of her father after his stroke and gradual blindness. After his death, she resumed painting full time in 2006. “My paintings are about what makes me smile–my children, my family and funny animals. I enjoy painting and now I know that I’ll never give it up. It’s in my blood.” See less