For forty years, Howard Finster was a minister. After retirement, he lived in Summerville, Georgia, and constructed a garden dedicated to his religious beliefs. Called "Paradise Gardens Park and... Read full biography
For forty years, Howard Finster was a minister. After retirement, he lived in Summerville, Georgia, and constructed a garden dedicated to his religious beliefs. Called "Paradise Gardens Park and Museum," it has become a fantastic world created from found objects-- fragments of mirrors, salvaged... Read full biography
For forty years, Howard Finster was a minister. After retirement, he lived in Summerville, Georgia, and constructed a garden dedicated to his religious beliefs. Called "Paradise Gardens Park and Museum," it has become a fantastic world created from found objects-- fragments of mirrors, salvaged refrigerator doors, concrete walls, hubcaps, mosaic cement paths, and a pump house of Coca-Cola bottles---all to the glory of the Lord. Finster appeared regularly on Sundays to great visitors and to... Read full biography
For forty years, Howard Finster was a minister. After retirement, he lived in Summerville, Georgia, and constructed a garden dedicated to his religious beliefs. Called "Paradise Gardens Park and Museum," it has become a fantastic world created from found objects-- fragments of mirrors, salvaged refrigerator doors, concrete walls, hubcaps, mosaic cement paths, and a pump house of Coca-Cola bottles---all to the glory of the Lord. Finster appeared regularly on Sundays to great visitors and to guide them through the maze of symbolic sculptures, structures including a John Deer tractor and the Tomb of the Unknown Body. Indeed he has become a much-loved man for the vigor of his beliefs and his compassion towards others. Except for a book of... Read full biography
For forty years, Howard Finster was a minister. After retirement, he lived in Summerville, Georgia, and constructed a garden dedicated to his religious beliefs. Called "Paradise Gardens Park and Museum," it has become a fantastic world created from found objects-- fragments of mirrors, salvaged refrigerator doors, concrete walls, hubcaps, mosaic cement paths, and a pump house of Coca-Cola bottles---all to the glory of the Lord. Finster appeared regularly on Sundays to great visitors and to guide them through the maze of symbolic sculptures, structures including a John Deer tractor and the Tomb of the Unknown Body. Indeed he has become a much-loved man for the vigor of his beliefs and his compassion towards others. Except for a book of drawings he did in the 1930s, he did not do paintings until 1976 when he had a vision to do sacred art. He began to... Read full biography
Howard Finster - Artist Info
About Howard Finster: Books
Books & Publications (21)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Coming Home! Self-Taught Artists, the Bible, and the American South
2005
Crown, Carol
0 pages (color)
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
Howard Finster The Early Years : A Private Portrait of America's Premier Folk Artist
2001
Finster Bradshaw, Thelma
0 pages (color)
Wonders to Behold: The Visionary Art of Myrtice West
1999
Crown, Carol (Editor)
144 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Night Before Christmas [ABRIDGED] by Howard Finster (Illustrator)
1998
Clarke Moore, Clement
0 pages (color)
Light of the Spirit: Portraits of Southern Outsider Artists
1998
Goekjian, Karekin
0 pages
Art in the American South Works from the Ogden Collection
1996
Delehanty, Randolph
292 pages (color)
Contemporary American Folk Art A Collectors's Guide
1996
Rosenak, Chuck and Jan
320 pages (color)
A World of Their Own: Twentieth Century American Folk Art (Newark Museum)
1995
Jacobs, Joseph
88 pages (color)
Common Ground/Uncommon Vision Michael & Julie Hall Collection American Folk Art (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Lippard, Lucy/J Hayes/K Ames
335 pages (color)
American Self-Taught: Paintings and Drawings by Outsider Artists
1993
Maresca, Frank, Roger Ricco
298 pages (color)
A Southern Collection
1992
Pennington, Estill Curtis
246 pages (color)
Museum of American Folk Art Encyclopedia of 20th Century Folk Art and Artists
1990
Rosenak, Chuck and Jan
416 pages (color)
Howard Finster, Stranger from Another World Man of Visions Now on This Earth
1989
Finster, H told to T Patterson
223 pages (color)
Howard Finster Man of Vision
1989
Turner, J F
242 pages (color)
Baking in the Sun Visionary Images from the South (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Nasisse, Andy/M S Wahlman
146 pages (color)
American Folk Art of the Twentieth Century
1983
Johnson, Jay; William Ketchum
342 pages (color)
Black Folk Art in America, 1930-1980 (Corcoran Gallery of Art) (Exhibition catalog)