Details

Title

Waste Can

Artist/Maker

Howard Finster (American, 1916–2001)

Date

ca. 1979

Medium

Enamel on metal

Dimensions

29 7/8 x 19 inches

Credit

Gift of Andy Nasisse for the Nasisse Collection

Accession #

1993.95

On View

Currently not on view

Finster captured his repertoire of visionary subjects in a vast range of media, from easel paintings and free-standing sculpture to giant cutouts, found-object assemblages, and dioramas. He also created paintings on rocks, gourds, bottles, briar roots, automobiles, and this trash can. On Waste Can, Finster chides people for the indiscriminate manner in which they discard things, thus ruining the land the Lord gave them.

Image Copyright

© Howard Finster/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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