Cecil de Blaquiere Howard

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Cec Howard - Torse de boxeur 1930

Cecil de Blaquiere Howard (born April 2, 1888 in Clifton ( Canada ), † September 5, 1956 in New York ) was an American sculptor , painter and draftsman .

Life

Howard was the fourth and last child of the British businessman George Henry Howard (1840-1896) and his wife Alice Augusta (née Framer, 1850-1932). His siblings were the sisters Margaret Louisa (1878-1958) and the later singer and actress Alice Kathleen Howard (1880-1956) as well as the brother Harry Arthur (1882-1957), from an earlier marriage of the father came the half-sisters Jane Matilda (* 1871) and Harriett Mary (* 1872). Cecil as the youngest son received the family name "de Blaquiere" of his maternal grandmother as a middle name . The move in 1890 by Buffalo ( New York ) in 1896, the family became an American citizen.

Cecil Howard came to Paris at the age of 16 to take classes at the Académie Julian . He was an admirer and later also a friend of Aristide Maillol , to whom he was also artistically close. He was also friends with Rembrandt Bugatti , whom he accompanied on his trip to Antwerp in 1909 , where they made drawings and sculptures of animals in their natural environment in the zoological garden . Howard later destroyed many of his animal sculptures, possibly considering them inferior to Bugatti's works. In 1910 he moved into a studio on Avenue du Maine and devoted himself to depicting the human body. In the 1930s he became known not least for his miniatures of martial artists such as wrestlers , boxers and fencers .

Howard spent his life between France , England and the United States , where he also exhibited regularly. Among other things, his plaster sculptures "Woman" and "The artist" were represented in New York in 1913 at the Armory Show , which had a great influence on the development of American art and is often seen as the beginning of modernism in America.

In 1911 Howard met the French model Celine Louise Coupet, whom he married in 1917. Daughter Line was born in 1916 and was followed by son Noël in 1920 . Until the Second World War , the family spent the summertime in the Breton artists' colony in Ploubazlanec . Cecil de Blaquiere Howard is the grandfather of French actor Yves Beneyton , son of Line Howard Beneyton.

The Howards lived in Paris until 1939. At the beginning of the Second World War , Cecil Howard and his son supported the American Red Cross in France, but left Europe for New York that same year. In 1943 he was recruited there by the Office of Strategic Services and from 1945 worked for the Office of War Information . In 1948 he returned to Paris with his wife, but the couple decided to return to New York because of Celine's cancer, because they hoped for better medical care there.

  • Cecil Howard-Couple de danseurs

  • Cecil Howard - Fatigue

  • Cecil Howard - Knockout

  • Cec Howard - The Bowl 1913-14

  • Cecil Howard - Side headlock and butt

  • Cecil Howard - bust of Robert Winthrop Chanler

  • Cecil Howard - Scène de café (Gouache)

Works in museums

Sculptures by Cecil de Blaquiere Howard are now represented in numerous museums and collections around the world, in particular:

Works in public space

Exhibitions

Source: Conner, Rosary.

Awards

Memberships

literature

  • Janis Conner, Joel Rosenkranz: Rediscoveries in American Sculpture. Studio Works, 1893-1939 . University of Texas Press, Austin 1989.
  • Christine Rohrschneider: Howard, Cecil . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 75, de Gruyter, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-023180-9 , p. 130.

Web links

Commons : Cecil Howard  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cecil de Blaquiere HOWARD on Geneanet, accessed January 19, 2017
  2. ^ Janis Conner, Joel Rosenkranz: Rediscoveries in American Sculpture. Studio Works, 1893-1939 . University of Texas Press, Austin 1989, p. 63.
  3. ^ Janis Conner, Joel Rosenkranz: Rediscoveries in American Sculpture. Studio Works, 1893-1939 . University of Texas Press, Austin 1989, p. 64.
  4. ^ Armory Show 1913 Complete List , The Armory Show at 100 in 2013, New-York Historical Society , accessed January 19, 2017.
  5. ↑ Family tree Yves Beneyton on Geneanet, accessed on January 19, 2017
  6. ↑ Works by Cecil de Blaquiere Howard in the Whitney Museum of American Art , accessed January 19, 2017
  7. ↑ Cecil de Blaquiere Howard in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery , New York, accessed January 19, 2017
  8. ↑ Memorial to the fallen soldiers of the First World War in Hautot-sur-Mer (Normandy), 1919  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / monumentsmorts.univ-lille3.fr  
  9. ^ Janis Conner, Joel Rosenkranz: Rediscoveries in American Sculpture. Studio Works, 1893-1939 . University of Texas Press, Austin 1989, p. 66. For Aubrey Herbert, see French Wikipedia
  10. ^ Janis Conner, Joel Rosenkranz: Rediscoveries in American Sculpture. Studio Works, 1893-1939 . University of Texas Press, Austin 1989, pp. 64-69.
  11. ↑ Members: Cecil Howard. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 4, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Past Academicians “H” ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 10, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nationalacademy.org
personal data
SURNAME Howard, Cecil de Blaquiere
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian-American sculptor, painter, and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Clifton
DATE OF DEATH 5th September 1956
Place of death new York