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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
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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

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