2011.47: Sights Appear on My Mountains, Sighns [sic] of the Times

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2011.47

People

Howard Finster, American (Valley Head, AL 1916-2001 Rome, GA)

Title

Sights Appear on My Mountains, Sighns [sic] of the Times

Other Titles

Former Title: Show Me More Lord

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1978

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/337433

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Enamel on masonite

Dimensions

framed: 72.4 x 42.5 cm (28 1/2 x 16 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: on verso, in black ink: By HOWARD FINSTER/ MAN OF VISIONS HOSEP 12-10
• inscription: signed and inscribed l.l: BY HOWARD FINSTER/ A MAN OF VISIONS/ OH GOD i SEEK TO/ KNOW MORE ABOUT/ YOUR OTHER WORLDS/ AS YOU HAVE SAID SEEK AND YE/ SHALL FIND. LORD I WORK/ ALL NIGHT MANY TIMES. SHOW ME MORE LORD
  inscribed l.c.r.: SIGHTS/ APPEAR ON/ MY/ MOUNTAINS/ SIGHNS [sic] OF/ THE TIMES
  inscribed l.c.: 1000 AND 185 PAINTING
  inscribed l.r.: UNBELIEVABLE SIGHTS/ APPEARED ON THIS/ PAINTING i HAVE A FELING [sic]/ GOD IS TELLING US SOME-/ THINGS OF OTHER WORLDS
• (not assigned): on verso, in black ink: 1000 AND 185 Paintings./ By HOWARD FINSTER/ MAN OF VISIONS HOSEP 12-10/ Handmade Cyrpus (sic) trim/ Aug-1978/ The Mysteries appeared/ on this painting unknown/ I suppose to be of/ other worlds or/ hidden parts on the/ earth.
• label: on verso, picture of the artist as a young man

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Howard Finster, sold; to Jeff and Jane Camp; [Cavin-Morris/Ethnographic Arts, Inc., New York, NY]; Didi and David Barrett, NY, gift; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2011.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Collection of Didi & David Barrett ‘71

Copyright

© Howard Finster/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Accession Year

2011

Object Number

2011.47

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• J. F. Turner, Howard Finster: Man of Visions, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (New York, 1989), ill. pp. 156-157
• Elsa Longhauser and Harald Szeemann, Self-Taught Artists of the 20th Century, exh. cat., Museum of American Folk Art and Chronicle Books (San Francisco, 1998), p. 166, ill. p. 241.

Exhibition History

• Recent Acquisitions, Part II: Building the Collection, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/19/2012 - 09/29/2012
• 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/28/2023 - 05/07/2023

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