Howard Finster Oil Paint Marker and Acrylic Painting, 1996

Item Details

Reverend Howard Finster (American, 1916 – 2001)
Home Is More Than a House It Is When Jesus Is Is Home to Me. Jesus Is the Holy One of Your Home……, 1996
Oil paint marker and acrylic painting on board
Signed to the verso
Inscription to the verso reads “Visions of the last days. Jesus is coming with angels in great glory and power. Every eye shall see him. His words is life be ready in his words. When he comes pray in his name and he will save those who call on his name in the last days. So be ye all so ready for that day of the lord.”
Work numbered “39,000.224” (39,224) to the verso

Provenance
From the collection of P.J. McArdle.

Reverend William Howard Finster was a minister for over forty years in Alabama, the place where he was born. After retirement, he moved to Summerville, Georgia, where he turned his swampland into Paradise Garden in reflection of his religious beliefs and a vision that sent him on a mission to create sacred art. Finster used oil, watercolor, lacquer and other paints on found objects and salvaged pieces of glass and cardboard to make religious folk art creations. His works have been featured on album covers for popular rock bands such as the Talking Heads which was featured as the 1985 album of the year in Rolling Stones Magazine, as well as on REM’s Reckoning album cover. Perhaps his most well-known work is the eight foot tall Coca-Cola bottle commissioned for the 1996 Olympic Games global art project. Finster promised God he would create 5,000 paintings in his lifetime and at the end created 46,991 numbered pieces.

Condition

- accretions and marks throughout work particularly to the upper corners; nicks and abrasions to the outer edges

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Item #

ITMG122671