
Artwork Details
- Title
- THE LORD WILL DELIVER HIS PEOPLE ACROSS JORDAN
- Artist
- Date
- 1976
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 30 1⁄8 x 29 5⁄8 in. (76.4 x 75.1 cm.)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr.
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- enamel on fiberboard
- Classifications
- Highlights
- Keywords
- Architecture — religious
- Religion — New Testament — Christ
- Landscape — river — Jordan River
- Religion — angel
- Object Number
- 1988.74.6
Artwork Description
In 1976, after some four decades of preaching, Howard Finster responded to a vision in which God directed him to "paint sacred art." Finster believed that pictures would help people grasp the enormity of the Word of God. His painted sermons on life, death, salvation, and damnation eventually covered almost every inch of Paradise Garden, his four-acre art environment in Summerville, Georgia.
His concerns about a world of suffering and destruction drove Finster to create the artworks he called "signposts to salvation." In this triptych, he depicts trials encountered in the Bible's Book of Revelations, conveying his belief that no matter what problems loomed, God would protect and deliver the faithful.