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Howard Finster Howard in 1944 ca. 1990 screenprint Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Howard Finster God is Love after 1970 oil on panel Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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Howard Finster And The Moon Became As Blood 1976 enamel on panel Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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Howard Finster The Lord Will Deliver His People Across Jordan 1976 enamel on panel Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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Howard Finster Biblical Narrative Painting 1978 enamel on panel Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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Howard Finster Man of Vision Found in Hosea 12:10 1978 enamel on panel Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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Howard Finster The Model of Super Power Plaint 1979 "folk art made from old TV parts" Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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Howard Finster Vision Of A Great Gulf On Planet Hell 1980 enamel on panel Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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Howard Finster Talking Heads: And She Was 1985 offset-lithograph (album sleeve) Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York |
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Howard Finster Talking Heads: Little Creatures 1985 offset-lithograph (album sleeve) Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York |
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Michael O'Brien Howard Finster 1988 inkjet print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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Howard Finster Untitled 1988 painted glass bottle Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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Howard Finster Henry Ford 1988 screenprint Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Howard Finster Mona Lisa 1988 screenprint Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Howard Finster Mytrant 1991 screenprint Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Chuck Rosenak Howard Finster's Coca-Cola Bottle Sculpture 2001 color slide Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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Chuck Rosenak Howard Finster's Casket 2001 color slide Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
from Pharsalia
All great things crush themselves, such end the gods,
Allot the height of honor, men so strong
By land, and sea, no forreine force could ruine:
O Roome thy selfe art cause of all these evils,
Thy selfe thus shivered out to three mens shares,
Dire league of partners in a kingdome last not.
O faintly join'd friends with ambition blind,
Why joine you force to share the world betwixt you?
While th'earth the sea, and ayre the earth sustaines;
While Titan strives against the worlds swift course;
Or Cynthia nights Queene waights upon the day;
Shall never faith be found in fellow kings.
Dominion cannot suffer partnership;
This need no forraine proofe, nor far fet story:
Roomes infant walles were steept in brothers bloud;
Nor then was land, or sea, to breed such hate,
A towne with one poore church set them at oddes.
– Lucan (AD 39-65), translated by Christopher Marlowe (before 1593)