Howard Livingston Hastings - Artist Info

About Howard Livingston Hastings

  • Biography

    Howard Livingston Hastings was born December 19, 1887 in New York City. His father, James Sibley Hastings, was born in 1857 in NY. His mother, Annie Hazard Egbert, was born in 1859 in New Jersey. His parents married on October 19, 1886 and had three children, Howard (b.1887), Edith (b.1891), and Albert (b.1893). The father was a bookkeeper at a bank.

    In 1898 the family left NYC and moved to Westfield, NJ, where they lived at 605 Westfield Avenue. In 1908 Howard L. Hastings graduated from Westfield High School. The 1910 Census listed him as an art student, age twenty-two, living at home with his family.

    In June of 1911, at the age of twenty-three, he began to study at the Art Students League* of New York. The school was located...

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