William Henry Howe
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.
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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
- William Henry Howe , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- William H. Howe , biography in the portal americanart.si.edu ( Smithsonian American Art Museum )
- William Henry Howe , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .de
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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 )
- ↑ 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)
- ^ Members: William H. Howe. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 4, 2019 .
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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 |