Howard Finster (1916-2001)
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF LARRY DUMONT
Howard Finster (1916-2001)

Traveling Show: Presentation Piece Detailing the Life of Howard Finster, 1988

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Howard Finster (1916-2001)
Traveling Show: Presentation Piece Detailing the Life of Howard Finster, 1988
mixed media on panel
48 ½ x 97 ½ in.
Provenance
Private Collection
Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in 2001
Exhibited
Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Outside the Mainstream: Folk Art in Our Time, 19 May - 12 August 1988.

Lot Essay

Traveling Show was made in conjunction with the 1988 exhibition Outside the Mainstream: Folk Art in Our Time at the High Museum of Art at the Georgia Pacific Center in Atlanta. The brochure for the exhibition mentions the work as a highlight of the show, noting "a specially-commissioned 4' x 8' wall construction by the Reverend Howard Finster...will be in progress as the exhibition opens." Per Howard Finster, Stranger From Another World (Abbeville Press, 1989), Finster sold the work, sight-unseen, shortly before the exhibition for the highest price he had received to that date.

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