On View at The Do Good Fund Gallery
Howard Finster:
Man of Visions
Outsider Art from The Largeman Family Collection
March 12 - May 17
The Do Good Fund is pleased to exhibit prints of work by Howard Finster in Howard Finster: Man of Visions. Outsider Art from The Largeman Collection. The back gallery features works from self-taught artists John Toney and Purvis Young, hailing from Seale, Alabama and Miami, Florida, respectively.
Howard Finster, a self-proclaimed Man of Visions, was born in Valley Head, Alabama in 1916, as one of 13 children. In his 84 years of life, Finster worked as a farmer, factory employee, minister, bicycle repairman, and a professional artist, making over 46,991 paintings and painted objects. Creating cover art for two popular album covers by REM and The Talking Heads in the 1980’s launched him to national fame. Finster is considered one of the most well-known self-taught artists of the twentieth century.
Please join us on Thursday, April 17 at 6:00pm, for a Do Good Salon and will featuring Katherine Jentleson, Senior Curator of American Art and Merrie and Dan Boone Curator of Folk and Self-Taught Art at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta.
Do Good Salon
Katherine Jentleson, Senior Curator of American Art and Merrie and Dan Boone Curator of Folk and Self-Taught Art at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta.
Thursday, April 17, at 6:00PM
111 12th Street Suite 103
Columbus, Ga
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