Art Review: Reverend Howard Finster Exhibit in Akron, Revealing

THE PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE
By Mary Thomas

"Seven Devils"

OHIO -- Transported. It's the way I felt as I wandered through Howard Finster's Plant Farm Museum in rural Georgia in the mid-1970s. And it's the experience I had walking through "Stranger in Paradise: The Works of Reverend Howard Finster" Sunday at the Akron Art Museum. The self-taught artist and self-appointed minister, born in 1916 in Valley Head, Ala., was ...was discovered by scholars and collectors, then by New York galleries, and by 1983 was on "The Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson. [link]


Akron Art Museum:"Stranger in Paradise: The Works of Reverand Howard Finster" (Ends June 3), One South High St., Akron, Ohio, akronartmuseum.org