Howard Finster Cut out “If Shoe Fits Wear It” 1988 -Outsider Folk Art. Howard Finster (1916- 2001). 8,162 works since 1976. Heel of good balance. Your soul is really all you own. SIZE : 17″ x 9 3/4″. Original Catalogue # 88. Predominate colors in blue, pink , and black. This folk art “cut out devotional” is numbered and is painted by Finster in in tractor enamel on plywood. The front of the piece features a shoe with a portrait of Preacher standing inside. The shoe is decorated with faces of women angels with long flowing hair. On the front is inscribed. ” If The Shoe Fits Wear it”. N the reverse is signed and dated by. Howard Finster July 1988. “God Bless For All”. Born into a lumberjack’s family of thirteen children, young Howard had his. First vision at the age of three. While looking for his mother in the. Family’s vegetable garden, he saw his dead sister wearing a white robe and. Howard believed that this was a sign from God that he would use art to spread the gospel Howard abandoned his career as a preacher and, at the age. Of sixty-one and without any artistic training, began to paint toward his. Initial goal of 5,000 works of art. Some 40,000 works of art later, he spread his vision across the country. Used tractor paint to paint details on earlier pieces. In later years, he preferred a felt tip marker, sometimes using an entire marker on one painting. He fil led the back with words, poems, and poignant religious sayings. In the 1980’s, I was lucky to have visited Howard several times at his Paradise Garden in Summerville, where he had created “Paradise Gardens”, the outdoor environment that he began in the early 1960s. Howard was extremely talkative and charismatic, with a generosity of spirit that drew people to him. He would chat nonstop to his visitors as he worked on a cutout piece of wood- obsessively painting. I photographed him many times. Here is a hand colored photo that took of his pink Cadillac. He was always so friendly. I remember one time when I visited, he gave me a big bowl of plums from his garden. Even as his health failed in the 1990s, Howard remained the folk-art icon as he is today. The item “Howard Finster Folk Art Outsider If Shoe Fits Cut Out 1988 8,162 works” is in sale since Sunday, May 31, 2020. This item is in the category “Art\Folk Art & Indigenous Art”. The seller is “deepsouthc” and is located in Montgomery, Alabama. This item can be shipped worldwide.

• Region of Origin: US-Southeast
• Artist: Howard Finster
• Style: Folk Art
• Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
• Material: Wood
• Quantity Type: Single-Piece Work
• Date of Creation: 1970-1989
• Original/Reproduction: Original
• Signed?: Signed
• Size Type/Largest Dimension: Small
• Type: Folk Art Painting on wood
• Original/ Reproduction: original
• Size Type/ Largest Dimension: Small
• Year: 1988
• Features: Signed
• OUTSIDER ART: FOLK ART
• Color: multi color blue pink
• Subject: Shoe
• Originality: Original