Howard Helmick - Artist Info

About Howard Helmick

Name variants

Howard Helmich, Howard Hemlick
  • Biography

    Born in the United States, Howard Helmick attended the Ohio Mechanics Institute in Cincinnati and later traveled to Paris and London where he became friendly with artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler. He exhibited at London's Royal Academy and several of the titles shown there suggest Irish subjects. The RHA, Dublin lists exhibits by him in 1879 and 1889 and his time spent in Cork was recorded by a writer friend, Hawthorne.

    For further reading see: Kinmonth, C., 'Howard Eaton Helmick Revisited; Matrimony and Material Culture through Irish Art' in V. Krielkamp ed., Rural Ireland: The Inside Story (Exhibition Catalogue, Boston College/McMullen Museum, 2012), 89-102.

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