Waste Can
Folk and Self-Taught Art
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Waste Can
Artwork Details
Artist/Maker
Howard Finster
American, 1916–2001
American, 1916–2001
Date
ca. 1979
Medium
Enamel on metal
Accession #
1993.95
Dimensions
29 7/8 x 19 inches
Location
Currently Not on View
Description
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.
Credit
Gift of Andy Nasisse for the Nasisse CollectionImage Copyright
© Howard Finster/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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