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Moses Williams (c. 1777 – c. 1825) was an African-American visual artist who was particularly well known as a maker of silhouettes. He was formerly enslaved by the artist Charles Willson Peale . Early life, slavery, and education
Moses was well-received. It has been awarded as a Caldecott Honor book and with the Coretta Scott King Award. A starred review in Publishers Weekly compliments the book's "elegant design" and the illustration's "intense portraits" and their ability to "convey all the emotion of Tubman's monumental mission." It also applauds the author for the ...
Moses Ernest Tolliver (July 4, 1918/1920 – October 30, 2006) [1] [2] was an American artist. He was known as "Mose T", after the signature on his paintings , signed with a backwards "s." [ 3 ]
Moses stands in the foreground, his right hand palm up and his left hand on the Tablets of Stone. The tablets are in shadow, their contents, the Ten Commandments, are unreadable. Behind him to his right stands his wife, a black woman—possibly Zipporah. Her right hand is to her chest. The ribbons in her hat resemble a cross or cruciform halo.
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White Christmas is a 1954 oil painting by the American outsider painter Grandma Moses, produced at age 94 and signed "Moses".It was in the collection of Irving Berlin. [1]It shows the artist's impression of an idealized white snowy Christmas, with children playing in the snow and ice-skating on a pond, horse-drawn sleighs on the roads, and a man dragging a pine tree towards a house.
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July Fourth is a 1951 oil painting by the American outsider painter Grandma Moses, produced at age 91 and signed "Moses". It is now in the White House, whose collections it entered in 1952. It shows a summer scene of people celebrating Independence Day, set in a typical Moses green summer setting. The figures are taking part in a parade, a ...