Howard Finster Vintage Outsider Folk Art Rare Yoke of Faith Screen Fabric 1987

Description: 100% Authentic guaranteed! Howard Finster Vintage Outsider Folk Art Rare Yoke of Faith Fabric 1987Howard Finster "Yoke of Faith" Fabric Bib /collar . Rare cloth piece 1987 This is a cloth yoke silkscreen fabric from 1987 in very good condition. Would look good framed."The Yoke of Faith in the living God to be Sure" - printed at bottom, numbered 6000.570 date 8:33 pm: May 12, 1987 Measurements: Yoke Size about 13"width x 17.5 " long Description: The yoke or bib is a screen print on fabric, interwoven with fragments of his sermon sayings like: "I am headed to another world meet me there, I never met a person I didn't love, and Jesus is alive I met him". In the center is a face with blue eyes. Images of churches, house, cars.The back of the bib/ collar reads: "The Yoke of Faith in the Living God to be Shure". Trimmed along edge in white polyester lace- Single hook /eye closure. Howard collaborated with Fabric workshops like the workshop in Philadelphia to create limited edition runs. Some say his fabric pieces were first sewn by his daughter Thelma and then later silkscreened.He believed that any method to "spread the word" was part of fulfilling his mission. Outsider Artist Howard Finster was born into a lumberjack's family of thirteen childr. 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, descending from heaven. Howard once said: "I get my inspiration from God. I've been having visions ever since I was a small kid." In the mid -1970's, Howard saw a human face in his own fingerprint. The face spoke and told him to paint sacred art. Howard interpreted this as a sign from God that he should create works of art in order to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He 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. From then until his death, Howard Finster painted almost non-stop. He slept very little and painted detailed accounts of his visions and dreams. Howard claimed to have regular visions of God and Elvis. He supposedly once told a crowd at Ol’ Miss College: "I turned around and looked up and saw Elvis’s face. The only thing I could think of to say to him was, ‘Elvis, can you stay a while with me?', and Elvis replied, ‘Howard, you know that I’m on a tight schedule' ". Finster produced some 48,000 works. before his death. Howard Finster usually wrote on the back of each piece that he created, numbering each piece, with the date of the creation and often prophetic words by the legendary outsider artist. Howard Finster passed away on October 22nd, 2001. Any questions contact us!

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Location: Chicago, Illinois

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