Howard Finster (1916–2001) was an Alabama-born self-taught artist, preacher and creator of Paradise Garden who became one of the best-known American visionary and folk artists of the twentieth century. This painted cutout, numbered #45,373, depicts a striped anthropomorphic cat-like figure identified across the waist as “CRICKET MAN.” Painted in red, white and black with a blue eye and spotted facial details and mounted to a wooden base containing extensive handwritten text. 5"x12"