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Oils on canvas measuring 8″ x 10″ framed size 11 7/8″ x 13 7/8″, monogrammed lower right. Listing and template services provided by inkFrog.

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Mose Tolliver Mose T signed Watermelon Painting on Wood Outsider Folk Art 10×9. This painting is 10 inches long and 9 inches high and on what looks like 3/4 plywood. Mose Tolliver grew up in the Pike Road Community in Alabama, born to a family of sharecroppers. In the late 1960’s, a load of marble crushed his legs and almost killed him. The accident left him unable to work. In 1970, at the encouragement of his former employer, he began to paint. Developing a signature wet-on-wet technique, Tolliver began painting animals, people, plants, fruits and vegetables, all in flat perspective, stylistically refined as elementary shapes and symbols.

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This is a great piece with no flaws. Montgomery Native Mose Tolliver was well know for is folk art painted on wood. The watermelon art piece was one of his favorite pieces to paint. Mose always put a beer tap on the back for easy hanging.

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Found in the FingerLakes region of New York State this painting on canvas measures 25″ x 17″. It photographs crisper than it looks in person. Telling me it would like a cleaning. A few blemishes but overall a beautiful and very stable painting. I believe the photographs give an accurate read.

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Hello, you are viewing my listing for a Vintage Oil Painting on Canvas of WATERMELON SLICES. This is an amazing American Folk Art Painting. This painting weighs 1.4 pounds and measures 24″ wide by 18″ tall by 3/4 thick. It is in good condition with minor wear present. There are no rips, tears, or repairs. Please view all my photographs for further details. Please note all sales are final. I do require a signature upon receipt for all the items I sell. COME VISIT MY E-BAY STORE JUNKENTREASURES OFTEN SINCE I ADD INTERESTING ITEMS ON A DAILY BASIS. This item is in the category “Art\Paintings”. The seller is “redbig73″ and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, China, Sweden, Korea, South, Indonesia, Taiwan, South Africa, Thailand, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Bahamas, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Croatia, Republic of, Malaysia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Montserrat, Turks and Caicos Islands, Barbados, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Brunei Darussalam, Bolivia, Egypt, French Guiana, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Guadeloupe, Iceland, Jersey, Jordan, Cambodia, Cayman Islands, Liechtenstein, Sri Lanka, Luxembourg, Monaco, Macau, Martinique, Maldives, Nicaragua, Oman, Pakistan, Paraguay, Reunion, Uruguay.

• Size: Large
• Region of Origin: Unknown
• Handmade: Yes
• Artist: Unknown
• Production Technique: Oil Painting
• Framing: Unframed
• Country/Region of Manufacture: Unknown
• Style: Folk Art
• Item Height: 18 in
• Item Width: 24 in
• Material: Canvas
• Time Period Produced: Unknown
• Personalize: No
• Type: Painting
• Features: One of a Kind (OOAK)
• Subject: Watermelon
• Culture: American Folk Art
• Signed: No
• Year of Production: Unknown
• Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original
• Unit of Sale: Single Piece

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Amazing antique 19th century, c1870s, original folk art oil painting. Depicts a still life scene of fruits including watermelon, pineapple, cherries, plums, peaches and blueberries! Very well done in nice lines and capture of shadow. Medium is oil on academy board done in a folk art style. No signature that I can note. Framed in an antique rosewood? Veneer wood frame and ready to hang. Verso boasts nice early artist supply sellers label on verso. In Good overall condition. Exhibits gentle soiling, scuffing and wear but minimal. Frame shows gentle wear. Measures 21 1/2″ x 16 3/4″ and 25″ x 20″ with the frame. Please enjoy the photos for further item details and if you have any questions feel free to ask. Thank you and be sure to check out our other listings! This item is in the category “Art\Paintings”. The seller is “massachusettsantiques” and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped to United States.

• Artist: Unknown
• Unit of Sale: Single Piece
• Size: Medium
• Custom Bundle: No
• Region of Origin: Massachusetts, USA
• Framing: Framed
• Personalize: No
• Year of Production: 1870
• Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original
• Item Height: 16.75 in
• Style: Folk Art
• Features: One of a Kind (OOAK)
• Handmade: Yes
• Item Width: 21.5 in
• Culture: American
• Time Period Produced: 1850-1899
• Signed: No
• Material: Academy Board
• Certificate of Authenticity (COA): No
• Subject: Still Life
• Type: Painting
• Production Technique: Oil Painting
• Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

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Folk art style painting on board labeled NEGRO TROOPS 1864 Vermont Vol. Excellent and unusual image depicting a Civil War Solider with A gun and Watermelon Slice. Watercolors / various inks and paints, mounted in an old distressed wooden frame and backing. Look at each photograph and zoom up to notice details / imperfections / colors / etc. Measures approx 29 1/2” x 25′. Great display piece and a must have if your a folk art decorator / collector. Credited to listed artist Antonio Romano. Primitive modernist, Antonio Romano, is a classically trained artist with ancestral roots dating back five generations, who developed a distinctive style combining modernism and narrative folk art, with an aura of surrealism and mystery. The influence of Man Ray, Giorgio De Chirico, the Italian Futurists, Paul Delvaux and Rene Magritte is acknowledged, but Romano has assimilated their influence and gone his own way to create stunning and provocative primitive modernist paintings that are carefully and skillfully conceived, designed and executed. Incorporating narrative folk artwork referencing American landscapes, scenes of historic action, or folk portraits of American Indians, soldiers and rogues, Romano is drawn to figurative reinterpretation of historic scenes and art of the past. A Fresco artist, Antonio Romano has a style that is reminiscent of a bygone era — influenced by the use of colors from that time as well as its imagery. His background as a fresco painter informs his unique contemporary style. Romano works with inks and dyes, often of his own formula, and with emulsions that he has created over the years, handed down by his ancestors. He applies his fresco and inks to the backsides of “found” canvases and discarded paintings that absorb his intricate layering of inks and images that transform the color palette giving the work a patina that communicates age and a modern sense of history. Romano was part of the emerging New York City art scene in the 1980s. He has done frescoes for the ceiling and walls of St. Mary’s Cathedral in Albany, Our Lady of Pompeii in Greenwich Village, and he designed the restaurant, Bella Blu Ristorante in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York where his fresco’s still hang on the walls. His works have been shown in several exhibitions including Art Port Gallery, New York, Mary Boone, New York, and John Sullivan Gallery, New York. This item is in the category “Art\Paintings”. The seller is “realamericanaantiques” and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped to United States.

• Style: Folk Art
• Material: Watercolor

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Mose T Painting – Mose Tolliver Folk Art On Wood Signed Original – Watermelon. Approximately 16″ x 27″. From farthest poiny to farthest point is around 44. Track Page Views With. Auctiva’s FREE Counter. The item “Mose T Painting Mose Tolliver Folk Art On Wood Signed Original Watermelon” is in sale since Tuesday, August 11, 2020. This item is in the category “Art\Folk Art & Indigenous Art”. The seller is “gooddealdaves” and is located in Canton, Texas. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, Sweden, South Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan, South africa, Thailand, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Bahamas, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Norway, Saudi arabia, United arab emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Croatia, Malaysia, Chile, Colombia, Costa rica, Panama, Trinidad and tobago, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Antigua and barbuda, Aruba, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Saint kitts and nevis, Saint lucia, Montserrat, Turks and caicos islands, Barbados, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Brunei darussalam, Bolivia, Ecuador, Egypt, French guiana, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Guadeloupe, Iceland, Jersey, Jordan, Cambodia, Cayman islands, Liechtenstein, Sri lanka, Luxembourg, Monaco, Macao, Martinique, Maldives, Nicaragua, Oman, Peru, Pakistan, Paraguay, Reunion, Viet nam, Uruguay.

• Year: Early 90s
• Subject: Fruit
• Date of Creation: 1990-1999
• Type: Paintings
• Material: Wood
• Style: Folk Art
• Originality: Original
• Region of Origin: US-Southeast
• Artist: Mose Tolliver
• Color: Multi-Color
• Features: Signed

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OUTSTANDING FOLK ART PAINTED ANTIQUE WOODEN BOWL, WATERMELON. Offered here a great folk art painted antique wooden bowl/trencher. The bowl itself is beautifully carved in an elongated oval shape. It measures 19 1/2 x 11 1/4 x 3 1/2. The interior finish is a light varnish. For decorative purposes this bowl was painted to look like a watermelon and drilled to hang on a wall. I would date the painting to the 1950s considering the enamel paint used. Thanks for looking into my auctions. The item “OUTSTANDING FOLK ART PAINTED ANTIQUE WOODEN BOWL, WATERMELON” is in sale since Monday, August 3, 2020. This item is in the category “Antiques\Primitives”. The seller is “auldstf” and is located in El Cerrito, California. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, Sweden, South Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan, South africa, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Bahamas, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, Norway, Saudi arabia, United arab emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Croatia, Malaysia, Chile, Colombia, Costa rica, Dominican republic, Panama, Trinidad and tobago, Guatemala, El salvador, Honduras, Jamaica, Antigua and barbuda, Aruba, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Saint kitts and nevis, Saint lucia, Montserrat, Turks and caicos islands, Barbados, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Brunei darussalam, Bolivia, Ecuador, Egypt, French guiana, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Guadeloupe, Iceland, Jersey, Jordan, Cambodia, Cayman islands, Liechtenstein, Sri lanka, Luxembourg, Monaco, Macao, Martinique, Maldives, Nicaragua, Oman, Peru, Pakistan, Paraguay, Reunion, Viet nam, Uruguay.

• Category: Antiques
• Featured Refinements: Antique Folk Art
• Type: Bowls
• Date of Creation: 1800-1899
• Size Type/Largest Dimension: Medium (Up to 30in.)
• Material: Wood
• Style: Naive, Primitive
• Original/Reproduction: Original
• Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
• Region of Origin: US, Non-specific region
• Color: Green

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It is signed in his typical backward S style. Mose Ts paintings are in many museum collections, including those of the American Folk Art Museum in New York, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D. The New Orleans Museum of Art and the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore. His former employer encouraged him to start painting, and Tolliver began to create images with house paint on pieces of plywood, Masonite, or old furniture. Unable to stand without crutches, he sat on his bed to paint, placing the board on his knees. Then in the 1980s Mose had a solo show at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, and was included in a folk art exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery, in Washington, D. Where he met with Nancy Reagan. His work is in the Collection of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art and numerous other public and private collections. He lived in poverty, but Mose also had a very fascinating life, including spending time painting at the White House at the request of the Reagans. During the late 1960’s, boredom and long hours of idle time spawned his creativity. Mose works with “pure house paint” on plywood; creating whimsical, haunting and sometimes erotic pictures of wonderfully balanced animals, humans, and flora. A “Quail Bird” may glide over a cotton field, or a spread-leg “Diana” may be straddled over An Excercise Rack Bicycle. Self portraits with crutches are a repeated image. Mose was dyslexic, which may have encouraged his artisitic efforts by limiting his reading and writing abilities. He would often turn his paintings upside-down and paint the picture of perhaps an animal and landscape positioned from various directions. Tolliver’s titles exhibit a fantastic imagination; “Smoke Charlies, ” “Scopper Bugs, “or Jick Jack Suzy Satisfying her own Self. Tolliver’s work has been exhibited at the Philadelphia College of Art, Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, and the Cocoran Gallery of Art. In 1993, a retrospective of his work was held at the Museum of American Folk Art in New York City. Mose Tolliver died on October 30, 2006 at a hospital in Montgomery, Alabama, from pneumonia. The item “Folk Art Mose Tolliver Folk Art Watermelon Painting” is in sale since Sunday, March 17, 2019. This item is in the category “Art\Folk Art & Indigenous Art”. The seller is “fausto181818″ and is located in New York, New York. This item can be shipped to United States.

• Size: Medium (up to 36in.)
• Region of Origin: Alabama
• Artist: Mose Tolliver
• Material: Wood
• Date of Creation: 1970-1989
• Year: 1985-1990
• Features: Signed
• Width (Inches): 15.5″
• Color: White red green black
• Subject: fruit
• Originality: Original
• Height (Inches): 9.5″

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