William Henry Howe

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William Henry Howe in his studio in Paris , photo, taken between 1885 and 1890

William Henry Howe (* 1846 in Ravenna , Portage County , Ohio , † March 15, 1929 in Bronxville , New York ) was an American landscape and animal painter .

Life

Howe was born the son of Elisha B. Howe, a saddler from Massachusetts . Howe started out as a small businessman in Grand Rapids , Michigan and St. Louis , Missouri . He began taking drawing lessons in St. Louis. In 1879 he traveled to Düsseldorf for an academic painter education , a European training center known for the Düsseldorf School of Painting . From 1879 to 1881 he attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where Hugo Crola , Heinrich Lauenstein and Peter Janssen the Elder were his teachers. Then he went to Paris , where - apart from study trips that took him to Normandy and the Netherlands ( Laren , 1890, Laren School ) - he lived for the next twelve years until 1893. There he was introduced to animal painting by Félix de Vuillefroy-Cassini and Otto von Thoren . From 1883 to 1893 he regularly took part in exhibitions at the Salon de Paris . In 1888 he received a third class medal there. At the World Exhibition in Paris in 1889 he won a silver medal. He was honored with gold medals at exhibitions at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia and at London's Crystal Palace in 1890.

Lyme Pasture (Meadows near Lyme ) , 1920

In 1893 he returned to the United States and initially opened a studio in New York City . Soon after, however, he moved to Bronxville, where he participated in the establishment of a small artists' colony . In the summer he also lived in Old Lyme , Connecticut , where he was also involved with the landscape painter Henry Ward Ranger in the creation of an artist colony (Old Lyme art colony) and as a paternal figure ("uncle") for a generation of younger painters - under them Childe Hassam and Willard Leroy Metcalf - acted. From there he regularly took part in exhibitions in New York City. He also exhibited in Chicago , San Francisco , Atlanta , New Orleans , Boston and Buffalo , where he was also awarded prizes. In 1894 he was elected associate of the National Academy of Design , in 1897 its full member (academician) . In 1896 the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris took him on as a member, in 1899 France appointed him Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur (Ch. LH) . In 1908 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

Howe was an admirer of the Dutch animal painter Émile van Marcke and his teacher Otto von Thoren. His animal painting is also in the footsteps of Constant Troyon , a representative of the Barbizon School .

literature

  • Howe, William Henry . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume I, Dresden 1895, p. 579.
  • William Henry Howe. A Chief of Cattle-painters . In: The Art World , Volume III, No. 1 (October 1917), pp. 5 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Howe, William Henry . In: Jeffrey Weidman (project leader), Mary Sayre Haverstock, Jeannette Mahoney Vance, Brain L. Meggitt (eds.): Artists in Ohio, 1787–1900. A Biographical Dictionary . The Kent State University Press, Kent / Ohio, p. 432 ( Google Books ).
  • Joachim Busse: International handbook of all painters and sculptors of the 19th century . Busse, Wiesbaden 1977, p. 602.

Web links

Commons : William Henry Howe  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 432
  2. ↑ See nos. 6109–6111 in the finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the archive.nrw.de portal ( North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive )
  3. ↑ A Circle of Friends: The Artists of the Florence Griswold House , website for the exhibition about members of the Old Lyme art colony at Florence Griswold House , Old Lyme, Connecticut (March 31 to July 1, 2007)
  4. ^ Members: William H. Howe. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 4, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Howe, William Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American landscape and animal painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Ravenna , Portage County , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1929
Place of death Bronxville , New York