DepartmentUnited States & Canada

Can You Imagine

NamePainting

Artist Michael Finster (American, born 1969)

Date1989

Place madeGEORGIA, United States, North America

MediumPlywood, paint

Dimensions22 × 14 in. (55.8801 × 35.5601 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, Gift of Burt-Sellen Revocable Trust, A.2020.47.27

Object numberA.2020.47.27

DescriptionPainting of serpents and devil-like creatures. From top to bottom: a red devil with white horns, mouth, and eyes with multiple tenticles is bordered either side by pink serpents; below the devil are two entwined serpents; to either side of the serpents are lizard-bodied creatures with anthropomorphic heads. At the bottom are to snakes forming a base. At each corner is yellow foliage; a black-and-white decorate border completes all four edges.