COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
Record
AMICA ID:
SAAM.1988.74.8
AMICA Library Year:
1999
Object Type:
Paintings
Creator Name:
Finster, Howard
Creator Nationality:
North American; American
Creator Role:
Artist
Creator Dates/Places:
born 1916
Creator Name-CRT:
Howard Finster
Title:
THER SHALL BE EARTH qUAKES
Title Type:
Title
View:
Full View
Creation Date:
1976
Creation Start Date:
1976
Creation End Date:
1976
Materials and Techniques:
enamel on fiberboard
Dimensions:
30 x 29 1/2 in. (76.2 x 75.2 cm.)
AMICA Contributor:
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Owner Location:
Washington, DC, USA
ID Number:
1988.74.8
Credit Line:
Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr.
Inscriptions:
frame verso left in black marker: H.W.H. 32.back left in black marker: H.W.H.(underlined)/32.upper left in red and black paint: EZEK>9=9 - THE/LORD HATH FORSA-/KENTHE EARTH,/ISA=24=19 THE/BROKEN DOWN, THE/EARTH IS CLEAN/DISOLVEDupper right in red,black and grey paint: HEB-1=11-THE EARTH AND/THE HEAVENS ARE THE WORKS/OF THINE HANDS;THEY SHALL/PERISH: BUT THOU REMAINEST/AND THEY ALL SHALL WAX/OLD AS DOETH: A GARMENT/ANDAS: A VESTURE SHALT/THOU FOLD THEM UP. AND THEY/SHALL BE CHANGED BUT THOU/ART THE SAME./HAB-2=14 - EARTH: FILLED/WITH: KNOWLEDGE//NAH=1=5=EARTH BURNT AT/HIS PRESENCE,/JOB-9=24-EARTH GIVEN/UNTO HAND OF WICKED,/MIC=7=2 GOOD MAN PERISHED/OUT OF THE EARTHcenter in redand white paint: ISA=24=20/THE EARTH/SHALL REEL/TO AND - FRO/LIKE,A, DRUNKARDlower leftin grey paint: THER SHALL/BE EARTH/qUAKESlower right in white paint: ISA = 24= 20/iTSHALL BE/REMOVED. LIKE/A COTTAGE/AND THE/TRANSGRESSION (N written backwards)/THERE OFSHALL/BE HEAVY UPON/iT AND iT SHALL/FALL AND NOT RISE/AGAIN,
Copyright:
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Related Image Identifier Link:
SAAM.1988.74.8.tif
