of the year by Rolling Stone magazine. Other artists to use Finster as an album cover designer include Memory Dean, Pierce Pettis, and Adam Again. In 1994, a portion of his Paradise Garden was installed as part of the permanent collection of Atlanta's High Museum. Bill Mallonee of the Vigilantes of Love (also a Christian from Athens, Georgia) wrote a song inspired by Finster's artwork called The Glory and the Dream in 1994. Howard Finster was responsible for introducing millions to outsider art, but even with his fame, he remained focused on religious outreach. He said of the Talking Heads album, "I think there's twenty-six religious verses on that first cover I done for them. They sold a million records in the first two and a half months after it come out, so that's twenty-six million verses I got out into the world in two and a half months!" The classification of his creations overlap folk art and outsider art for the origin, naïve art and visionary art for the content. Notes References Beal, T. (Timothy Beal) (2005). "Folk Art Church: Paradise Gardens," in Roadside Religion: In Search of the Sacred, the Strange, and the Substance of Faith. Beacon Press. Finster, Howard and Patterson, Tom. (1989). Stranger From Another World: Man of Visions Now on This Earth. Abbeville Press. . Turner, J.F. (1989). Howard Finster: Man of Visions. Alfred A. Knopf. . Turner, J.F. "Howard Finster: Man of Visions", The Clarion, Fall 1989. Peacock, Robert (1996). Paradise Garden: A Trip Through Howard Finster’s Visionary World, Chronicle Books. . . External links official website for Rev. Howard Finster's Paradise Garden Foundation website for the Howard Finster Vision House Museum "Mind on Heaven" audio recording with the Shaking Ray Levis, 1987 Howard Finster article, Encyclopedia of Alabama A Masters thesis which details the life of Finster and five other visionary environmental artists. Article on Finster's Paradise, Raw Vision Issue 35 Thesis on Salvation-Themed Visionary Art 1916 births 2001 deaths People from DeKalb County, Alabama Folk artists Naïve painters Georgia (U.S. state) culture Artists from Georgia (U.S. state) Painters from Alabama People from Chattooga County, Georgia 20th-century American painters American male painters Album-cover and concert-poster artists Southern art Baptists from Alabama 20th-century Baptist ministers from the United States 20th-century American male artists Outsider artists Visionary artists