This poster featuring a hideous painted caricature of Tammy Faye Bakker was intended to be hung next to that of her husband, Jim Bakker (also in the museum’s collection), creating the punning phrase “False Profit.” Robbie Conal, the satirical illustrator and street artist, satirizes this pair of televangelists whose fame and massive accumulation of wealth peaked in the mid-1980s. The posters were published a year after Jim Bakker stepped down following a sex scandal and a year before he was imprisoned on counts of fraud and conspiracy. Conal had begun his career in 1986 under the Reagan administration when posters from the first of his many public art projects, “Men with No Lips,” incorporating satirical and deeply unflattering portraits of the president and his cabinet, were wheatpasted on the streets of major American cities by an army of volunteers.
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