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Howard Finster
American, born 1916

Gospel Bike, #1,776, 1980
Enamel on bicycle

Norfolk Southern Collection of Self-Taught Art,
1995.174

While working as a bicycle and lawn mower
repairman in the late 1960s, Howard Finster
accumulated many old bicycle frames and
parts. In addition to a few painted pieces, like
this fantastic Gospel Bike, he also built 2 giant
tower of bicycle parts that rose thirty feet from
its central location in his Paradise Garden.