Howard Finster's Paradise Garden
Featured200 North Lewis Street,
Summerville, GA 30747
Summerville, GA 30747
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1916 Valley Head, Alabama - 2001 Rome, Georgia. Known for: Naive religious-words, folk art constructions.
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
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About Howard Finster: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (8)
All MuseumsGeorgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia
The University of Georgia
90 Carlton Street
Athens, GA 30602-6719High Museum of Art
1280 Peachtree Street, N.E.
Atlanta, GA 30309Milwaukee Art Museum
700 North Art Museum Drive
Milwaukee, WI 53202-3707Morris Museum of Art
1 Tenth Street
Augusta, GA 30901The Columbus Museum (COMU)
1251 Wynnton Road
Columbus, GA 31906The Johnson Collection
100 Dunbar Street, Suite 203
Spartanburg, SC 29306The University Of Mississippi Museum and Historic Houses
University Avenue and 5th St.
Oxford, MS 38655