ARAB

Real name Gary Finnoe, passed away in April 3rd, 2004. Arab was a gifted artist and vastly under rated.

Along with his father Arab invented Vitamin

B17 or Laetrile.

Arab also loved race cars and thus painted many .

A wild, lovable character talented beyond belief and a friend to many of the great musicians and Artists of his era. What sets Arab apart is his use of Oil Paints as many of his 60's peers did not use oil paints.

Therefore , any of Arabs existing original paintings are extremely valuable due to the unique nature of the paintings and nobody else had his style or gifts. Sadly there will be no more .

Kindly contact me , Eric Albronda , for information about Arab and his paintings. ericalbronda@finestplanet.com

ERIC ALBRONDA / VICKI BRENNER, OWNERS, VICKI BRENNER TRUST FOR THE ARTS.

ON AUGUST 21, 2007 ERIC ALBRONDA, AFTER SEARCHING FOR 40 YEARS FOUND AND PURCHASED THE PAINTING FROM TOM MCGUIRE DDS., SEBASTOPOL CALIFORNIA. THE PAINTING WAS EXCHANGED FOR DENTAL WORK FOR GUT / ARAB IN 1971.
FOR MANY YEARS TOM MCGUIRE HAD THE PAINTING MOUNTED TO THE CEILING OF HIS DENTAL OFFICE SO HIS PATIENTS WOULD HAVE SOMETHING INTERESTING TO LOOK AT WHILE BEING DRILLED.

Dr. Tom Mcguire had the Painting by Arab mounted directly over his patients so while being drilled and note the Nitrous Oxide Mask one could
ogle the Blue Cheer Painting to add to their experience.

"A Fly on the Coach's Nose"

Painting by Arab, Gary Finnoe

Circa. 1968. Original--

location unknown

Carousel Ballroom, May 24, 25, 26, 1968; Big Brother, H.P.Lovecraft, Clara Ward Singers; © Painting ARAB. - Click here to see enlargement.

Poster painted by Arab for Bill Graham's

Carousel Ballroom

May 24, 25, 26, 1968

Big Brother and The Holding Company With Janis Joplin, H. P. Lovecraft, Clara Ward Singers

Arab, a truly visionary artist with almost a childlike quality. Arab was afforded the free time to paint as his father was an alchemist of sorts and synthesized laetrile, an early cancer treatment, from apricot pits.

Arab was also an astrologer and a race car fanatic. As such, Arab later on painted race cars. When the OUTSIDE INSIDE album cover was finished he offered the original to us for 2000 $US and we refused !

Arab said he gave it to a dentist in exchange for dental work back in 1971.

Gary Barent Finnoe or Arab or if you will. "The Crazy Arab" was best and great friends of Marc Engle .The Engle family for generations now

has produced the finest available "Cams " for race cars, and serious street machines. Arab and Mark shared a love for first class machines.

Below is a painting which he did for Marc and is one of the few paintings available as most of the rest are scattered about the world and hopefully little by little we will be ale to find them and include them here for viewing.

Oil on Canvas, Pictured are Marc Engle and friend with Race Plane.

THE PAINTING IS OWNED BY THE MARC ENGLE FAMILY a first cousin of Enzo Ferrari

of Ferrari Motor Cars, Italy.

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My painting is from a photo from 1985 with me talking to the late Dave Zeuschel in front of Georgia Mae the racing P-51 at Reno. Dave Zeuschel is an engine builder for these P-51’s and I ground cams for him.

Mark Engle

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The Rolling Stones Poster below is signed by Arab, Victor Moscosso and other contributing artists.

Arab's contribution is the "pin striping" below the red circle .

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