Our First and Last Leaders of the Truth

NamePainting

Maker Reverend Howard Finster (American, 1916-2001)

Date1977

Place madePennaville, Georgia, United States, North America

MediumWood, oil paint

Dimensions47 5/8 × 48 1/16 in. (121 × 122 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, purchase with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and the International Folk Art Foundation, A.1978.22.4

Object numberA.1978.22.4

Collections

United States and Canada

DescriptionLarge portrait of George Washington on wood in pink, white, black oils. In lower left hand corner smaller portraits of Jesus, Reverend Finster, and Robert Kennedy(?). Inscribed with Biblical passages.