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Annie Tolliver

Annie Tolliver (1950 - 2018) was active/lived in Alabama.  Annie Tolliver is 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 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 for about five years until the Fall of 1990. One day someone announced they would buy my paintings if   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1463 characters.]  Artist bio

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Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Annie Tolliver available:    Richard Burnside,  Myrtice West,  Juanita Rogers,  Bertha Halozan,  Charlie Lucas,  James Harold Jennings,  Lorenzo Scott,  Robert E Smith,  Anderson Johnson,  Sulton Rogers,  Woodie Long,  Hugo Sperger,  Lonnie B Holley,  Jane Winkelman,  Raymond Coins,  W C Rice,  Gayleen Aiken,  Annie Lucas,  Sybil Deyarmon Gibson,  Malcah Zeldis,  Tim Chess,  Archie Byron,  Mary Tillman Smith,  Ed Mumma



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Keywords and Quick Facts for Annie Tolliver


   Keywords 
Art MediaArt StyleArt 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

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