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The Reverand Albert Wagner (b. 1924) was born to sharecroppers in rural Arkansas, where he remembers loving to draw imaginary cars and airplanes (he had never been in either). His mother told him that if she had the money to send him to art school he might become a great artist. He left school after the third grade and eventually moved north to Cleveland, Ohio with his mother and brothers. After many years in the furniture moving business, Albert's childhood dream of becoming an artist came true. While cleaning up his house for his fiftieth birthday party, he was inspired by drips and splatters of paint that had stained an old board. From that moment he devoted himself to his art. His three story East Clevelan house is now home to both his People Love People House of God Ministry (basement) and the Rev. Albert Wagner museum and studio. Literally thousands of his drawings, paintings, sculptures and constructions are on display in every room of this unmistakable three story home. The Reverend's work is often religious, illustrating lessons from the Bible, but he also expresses his feelings on social matters and illustrates scenes from his childhood in the rural south. He has been widely exhibited around the country, including shows at the Akron Museum of Art and the American Visionary Museum of Art in Baltimore. Reverend Wagner was the subject of a expose "Faith in Paint" in LIFE MAGAZINE, May 25, 1998.
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