Details

Title

Jesus Is the Christ the Son of God

Artist/Maker

Howard Finster (American, 1916–2001)

Date

1985

Medium

Paint, Plexiglas, and plastic on wood

Dimensions

32 1/4 x 21 1/4 inches

Credit

T. Marshall Hahn Collection

Accession #

1997.73

Location

On View - Stent Family Wing, Skyway, Gallery 407

Paradise Garden was the nucleus of Howard Finster’s evangelism—an enormous outpouring of creative effort. This assembled painting is one of the more than 45,000 works Finster created to spread his message of Christian salvation. He combined here several of his favorite techniques to capture his intense personal vision, including the use of reflective surfaces, embellishments melted into plastic with a wood-burning tool, and the image of Christ.