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Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1949, Tolman attended classes at the
Institute of Art, and at Cass Tech, an arts magnet high school.
He is a graduate of the Art School of the Society of Arts &
Crafts, which is now known as the Center for Creative Studies, also
in Detroit.
The artist left Detroit in 1977 to paint in Ireland for nine months,
returning to live in Texas, where he began showing with the William
Campbell Gallery in Fort Worth and had his first one man show with
the Nimbus Gallery in Dallas. He also lived in Lawrence, Kansas
and Los Angeles before moving to the Ramah Navajo Reservation in
New Mexico in 1981. New Mexico felt like home, and he later settled
in the Duranes area of Albuquerque, building an adobe house and
studio in 1987. In 1990 he spent a year painting in Arraiolos,
a small hill town in central Portugal, and in 1994 he returned
to Portugal to work in the coastal town of Ericeira for two months.
Tolman’s work is included in many corporate collections and
a piece was recently purchased by the Albuquerque Museum for their
permanent collection.
Tolman currently works in a variety of mediums including drawing
in pencil and caran d'ache, and painting in both acrylic and oil,
often with collage and mixed media on canvas or paper. These works
are organic abstractions and often based on observation of nature.
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