Set Reminder2023-06-28 12:00:002023-06-28 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Outsider, Folk and Fine Art https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/outsider-folk-and-fine-art-21928 Our June auction of Outsider, Folk and Fine Art featured a rare canvas work by Chicago street artist Lee Godie, works by Finster, Sudduth, Tolliver, Willis, and many other outsider stars. The auction also featured sideshow banners, carousel animals, American folk art, quilts and eccentric anonymous paintings and sculptures.
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FINSTER, Howard (American, 1916-2001) Early Paradise Garden Painting Pre-Numbering. Enamel on Masonite. 10 ? x 30 ? ?. Signed lower left. Unframed. This is early important painting of Finster?s from his Paradise Garden before he started numbering and dating his works. Howard Finster was an American?artist and Baptist minister from Georgia. He claimed to be inspired by God to spread the gospel through the design of his swampy land into Paradise Garden, a?folk?art sculpture garden with over 46,000 pieces of?art. Finster came to widespread notice in the 1980s with his album cover designs for R.E.M. and Talking Heads. His works are in the collections of the Smithsonian American?Art?Museum, High Museum of?Art, and the Milwaukee Museum of?Art?among many others. Surface dirt. Some corner and edgewear with some paint loss. Seven drill holes around perimeter. Good condition. Provenance: Estate of Dean Jensen.