Howard Finster and Robyn Beverland

Howard Finster is definitely an artist I would like to research more into for this project.

• There is a lot of information about him out there, and his popularity as an outsider artist is something interesting to look at - whether the cross-over into the mainstream affected him as an artist, or importantly, how he was perceived
• In Gary Alan Fine's essay he mentions how people perceived Finster's work as lesser once he became famous
• Also I don't know how common this is for sought after art but I found a lot of Finster's originals on eBay

Robyn Beverland, or a similar artist would be good to research into. Less well known that Finster, so maybe harder to get hold of information, but it was interesting to read Fine's thoughts on how he believed that a lot of artists' disabilities and problems were utilised by collectors as ways to sell their art. 

Key words for dissertation narrowing down at this point:

• Identity (politics)
• Labelling
• Exploiting 

in / of Outsider Art