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Howard Finster

Howard Finster (1916 - 2001) was active/lived in Georgia, Alabama.  Howard Finster is 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 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 mount them on glass salvaged from television screens.  His mediums became oil, house paint, wa   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 10118 characters.]  Artist bio

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