Howard Finster (1916-2001)

Traveling Show was made in conjunction with the 1988 exhibition Outside the Mainstream: Folk Art in Our Time at the High Museum of Art at the Georgia Pacific Center in Atlanta. The brochure for the exhibition mentions the work as a highlight of the show, noting "a specially-commissioned 4' x 8' wall construction by the Reverend Howard Finster...will be in progress as the exhibition opens." Per Howard Finster, Stranger From Another World (Abbeville Press, 1989), Finster sold the work, sight-unseen, shortly before the exhibition for the highest price he had received to that date.