From North Carolina, Claude Howell was a painter in realist but not photo-real style of marine genre, especially fishermen and docks, and expansive seascapes. Before beginning to work, he made many... Read full biography
From North Carolina, Claude Howell was a painter in realist but not photo-real style of marine genre, especially fishermen and docks, and expansive seascapes. Before beginning to work, he made many sketches and notes about the light, color, and subjects. Howell was fully devoted to fine art... Read full biography
From North Carolina, Claude Howell was a painter in realist but not photo-real style of marine genre, especially fishermen and docks, and expansive seascapes. Before beginning to work, he made many sketches and notes about the light, color, and subjects. Howell was fully devoted to fine art painting and took odd jobs to support that interest. His only formal education was high school, but because of the regard in which he was held, he was hired to be head of the Art Department at UNC-Wilmington... Read full biography
From North Carolina, Claude Howell was a painter in realist but not photo-real style of marine genre, especially fishermen and docks, and expansive seascapes. Before beginning to work, he made many sketches and notes about the light, color, and subjects. Howell was fully devoted to fine art painting and took odd jobs to support that interest. His only formal education was high school, but because of the regard in which he was held, he was hired to be head of the Art Department at UNC-Wilmington when it became a four-year college. He taught there for twenty-one years before retiring in 1981. Exhibition venues include The Corcoran Gallery, Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as Wake Forest University. He was a lifelong supporter of the arts... Read full biography
From North Carolina, Claude Howell was a painter in realist but not photo-real style of marine genre, especially fishermen and docks, and expansive seascapes. Before beginning to work, he made many sketches and notes about the light, color, and subjects. Howell was fully devoted to fine art painting and took odd jobs to support that interest. His only formal education was high school, but because of the regard in which he was held, he was hired to be head of the Art Department at UNC-Wilmington when it became a four-year college. He taught there for twenty-one years before retiring in 1981. Exhibition venues include The Corcoran Gallery, Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as Wake Forest University. He was a lifelong supporter of the arts in North Carolina---teaching, encouraging, and collecting. Source:. Website of Wake Forest University... Read full biography
Claude Howell - Artist Info
About Claude Howell: Books
Books & Publications (13)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998
1997
Marquis Who's Who
1,515 pages
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Painting in the South: 1564-1980 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Virginia Museum, Richmond
362 pages (color)
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976
Jaques Cattell Press
756 pages
Two Hundred Years of Visual Arts in North Carolina (Exhibition catalog)
1976
North Carolina Museum of Art
146 pages
American Paintings in the High Museum of Art/Bicentenial Catalogue
1975
Chambers, Bruce W
127 pages (color)
Claude Howell A Retrospective Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Tucker, Virginia
84 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index