Howard Finster Touring Exhibit

Howard Finster is best known for his artwork gracing album covers such as R.E.M.'s Reckoning and Talking Heads' Little Creatures, which Rolling Stone named “Album Cover of the Year.” Finster is the most prominent and famed member of the "outsider art" movement. A native of Athens, Georgia, Finster spent the better part of his life as a preacher; however, in 1976, at the age of 59, he received a vision which he interpreted as a message from God instructing him to begin painting sacred art. Nearly 50,000 paintings later Finster’s vision has placed his artwork in the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., the American Folk Art Museum in NYC, the Library of Congress and major museums and collections around the world.