Mose Tolliver grew up in the Pike Road Community in Alabama, born to a family of sharecropper’s. 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.

• Milwaukee Art Museum
• The Museum of Everything, Londres (Angleterre)
• American Folk Art Museum, New-York (Etats-Unis)
• Smithsonian Museum Of American Art, Washington (Etats-Unis)
• High Museum of Art, Atlanta (Etats-Unis)
• , Chicago (Etats-Unis)
• African American Museum, Dallas (Etats-Unis)
• Birmingham Museum of Art
• The Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans (Etats-Unis)
• New Orleans Museum of Art

• Arte bruta, terra incognita, catalogue d’exposition, (collection Treger-Saint Silvestre Lisbonne, 20 Avril 2012 au 23 Septembre 2012 à la Fondation Arpad-Szenses – Viera Da Silva), textes de Christian Berst, Marina Bairrao Ruivo, Antonio Saint Silvestre, Paris, lelivredart, 2012.
  
• Outsider Art, Source Book, Art brut, folk art, outsider art, raw vision Ltd, 2009.

• Alison Weld, “Raw Classic, Mose Tolliver” in Raw Vision n°58, 2007.

• Anton Haardt, Mose T A to Z : The Folk Art of Mose Tolliver, Hardcover, Saturno press, Dec. 20, 2007.

• Laurent Danchin, L’Art brut, L’Instinct créateur, Paris, Découverte Gallimard, 2006.

• John Maizels, L’Art brut, l’art outsider et au-delà, Paris, Phaidon, 2003.

• Colin Rhodes, L’Art Outsider, Art brut et création hors normes au XXe siècle, Paris, Editions Thames & Hudson, Coll. « L’univers de l’art », 2001.
• Arnett, William, and Paul Arnett, eds. Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art from the South, Volume 1. Atlanta, Georgia: Tinwood Books in association with Schomburg Center for Research in Black Cultures, New York, 2000.

• L. Danchin, M. Lusardy et al., Art Outsider et Folk Art des collections de Chicago, Paris, 1998.

• Julian Bond and Robert Ely, Mose T's Slapout Family Album : Poems by Mose Tolliver, Hardcover, Sep. 1996.

• Anton Haardt, “Mose Tolliver Goes to Washington.” in Raw Vision n°12, 1995.

• Frank Maresca and Roger Ricco, American-Self-Taught : Painting and drawings by outsider artists, New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.

• Jane Livingston, John Beardsley, Regenia Perry, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Black Folk Art in America, 1930-1980, Jackson, University Press of Mississippi , 1982