Sunday, September 28, 2025

Howard Finster

Howard Finster
Howard in 1944
ca. 1990
screenprint
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York


Howard Finster
God is Love
after 1970
oil on panel
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Howard Finster
And The Moon Became As Blood
1976
enamel on panel
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Howard Finster
The Lord Will Deliver His People Across Jordan
1976
enamel on panel
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Howard Finster
Biblical Narrative Painting
1978
enamel on panel
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Howard Finster
Man of Vision Found in Hosea 12:10
1978
enamel on panel
Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Washington DC

Howard Finster
The Model of Super Power Plaint
1979
"folk art made from old TV parts"
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Howard Finster
Vision Of A Great Gulf On Planet Hell
1980
enamel on panel
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Howard Finster
Talking Heads: And She Was
1985
offset-lithograph (album sleeve)
Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York

Howard Finster
Talking Heads: Little Creatures
1985
offset-lithograph (album sleeve)
Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York

Michael O'Brien
Howard Finster
1988
inkjet print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Howard Finster
Untitled
1988
painted glass bottle
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Howard Finster
Henry Ford
1988
screenprint
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Howard Finster
Mona Lisa
1988
screenprint
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Howard Finster
Mytrant
1991
screenprint
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Chuck Rosenak
Howard Finster's Coca-Cola Bottle Sculpture
2001
color slide
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

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)