Howard Finster Folk Art Outsider Lithograph Print When I sing

Description: Howard Finster Vintage Outsider Folk Art Print "When I sing" Provenance - purchased in 2002 from Andrew Sickle DETAILS: Howard Finster When I sing shrink wrapped " #3398 Size: The art print 24 x 24 Signed lower right Large life-size Finster self portrait with a planet inscribed "Worlds Beyond" and other religious sayings, and the visionary images that he saw. .."I believe in other Worlds,,,, " I have a feeling when I sing . I hope you feel it when you listen ....."My mother rocked me into this world Now let me sing my way out"... The Print is reproduced From original painting By Howard Finster 1981 -------- DETAILS This is a low edition 46/50 lithograph from EditionDirect and Mark Patsfall Graphics. SIGNED BY HOWARD FINSTER. The Man of Visions. . A legend of the American art. The Father of Folk Art. "WHEN I SING" is a print edition of only 50 lithographs. This is signed by Rev. Finster with a sharpie marker in the lower right hand corner. The lithograph measure 22 /14" H by 22" W. The image size is 20" x 20" This litho was published in celebration of Howard's first full-length recording back in 1980. This litho is just slightly differant than the original album cover. This image would look great anywhere. A special gift for the collector.(a very small edition). This lithograph is protected and shipped flat. Not rolled in a tube. This ensures maintaining the lithograph's durability and presence. ----- In the late 1980's I visited Howard at Paradise Gardens and photoed him and his environment. I purchased most of my Finsters directly from the artist or a few from collectors in this genre over the years. See photo of other Howard Finster Art available Outsider Artist Howard Finster was born into a lumberjack's family of thirteen childr. Young Howard had his first vision at the age of three. While looking for his mother in the family's vegetable garden, he saw his dead sister wearing a white robe, descending from heaven. Howard once said: "I get my inspiration from God. .I've been having visions ever since I was a small kid." In the mid -1970's, Howard saw a human face in his own fingerprint. The face spoke and told him to paint sacred art. Howard interpreted this as a sign from God that he should create works of art in order to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He abandoned his career as a preacher and, at the age of sixty-one and without any artistic training, began to paint toward his initial goal of 5,000 works of art. From then until his death, Howard Finster painted almost non-stop. He slept very little and painted detailed accounts of his visions and dreams. Howard claimed to have regular visions of God and Elvis. He supposedly once told a crowd at Ol’ Miss College:"I turned around and looked up and saw Elvis’s face. The only thing I could think of to say to him was, ‘Elvis, can you stay a while with me?' , and Elvis replied, ‘Howard, you know that I’m on a tight schedule' ". Finster produced some 48,000 works. before his death. Howard Finster usually wrote on the back of each piece that he created, numbering each piece, with the date of the creation and often prophetic words by the legendary outsider artist. Howard Finster passed away on October 22nd, 2001. VISIT MY EBAY SHOP FOR MORE FOLK ART FROM THE DEEP SOUTH I plan to list more Folk Art in the future. Some of the pieces to be listed on my ebay shop contains early Sudduths, a time when Sudduth used more "mud" in his paintings. There also are more early Tollivers and a large number of strong Sybil Gibson’s etheral dusty, muted pastel paintings on grocery bags…Some great abstract works by Willie White, and Roy Ferdinand urban ghetto memory paintings.A few pieces by Mary T Smith, and a number of Calvin Livingston's African hammered tin cutouts. Many of his paintings hang prominently in New Orleans House of Blues…..New Orelanian Welmon Sharlhorne who is known for his brilliant detailed line drawings done during his long stint at Angola Prison. I first purchased a Mose T titled "Tico Bird" in 1969. The strength his work is his lack of self-consciousness as to what his art is or should be. It was his sheer impulse to create, and therein lies its power.You can see my book on Mose Toliver in my Ebay store. I am in process of publishing my second book on Folk Artist Juanita Rogers, and in need of an Agent/Publicist. You can read about her on my website and In Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art, Volume One: There is an essay and photography on Juanita Rogers (1934-1985), who best exemplifies the Outsider Artist.Her clapboard and tin two-room shack was nestled in the middle of a cow pasture fenced in by barbed wire. Her porch was filled with strange sculptures. There were human, animal, and vessel forms of cracking clay embedded with mule and cow bones, teeth, fossil shells, glass, Spanish moss, and coffee grounds.

Price: 550 USD

Location: New Orleans, Louisiana

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