The Rev. Howard Finster, a Baptist preacher turned folk artist who called his crudely drawn, brightly colored artworks “sermons in paint,” died Monday at a medical center in Rome, Ga.--near his rural ...

“Howard was like a combination of Billy Graham and Mr. Rogers,” muses Larry Schlachter. “With a bit of Bob Vila, the home improvement guy, thrown in.” Schlachter—tall, 72, serendipitous purveyor of ...

The Rev. Howard Finster -- a folk artist who created sermons in paint that were featured on the covers of rock albums and in galleries worldwide -- died yesterday (Oct. 22) of congestive heart… By ...

He remains one of the most famous self-taught, do-it-yourself folk artists, who inadvertently created a mecca by filling his Paradise Garden with tens of thousands of his creations. Each year, fans of ...

There's a moment during Howard Finster's 1983 appearance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson — after his open-armed entrance and the "I never dreamed of being on your show" small talk — when the ...

The feverishly productive painter who designed Rolling Stone magazine’s 1985 album cover of the year was also a modern-day mystic whose studio and “sculpture garden” (featured heavily in the music ...

Howard Finster was an American artist famed for his often bizarre paintings and sculptures of angels, aliens, and historical figures such as George Washington. Finster was a Baptist minister and used ...