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1899 Montclair, New Jersey - 1978 Bagni Di Lucca, Italy. Known for: Non objective biomorphic-surreal shapes.
Charles Houghton Howard was born in Montclair, NJ on Jan. 2, 1899, the son of Mary Robertson Bradbury and John Galen Howard. The Howard family moved to California in 1902 and, after graduating from... Read full biography
Charles Houghton Howard was born in Montclair, NJ on Jan. 2, 1899, the son of Mary Robertson Bradbury and John Galen Howard. The Howard family moved to California in 1902 and, after graduating from Berkeley High School, Charles entered UC where he majored in journalism. While on a summer holiday in... Read full biography
Charles Houghton Howard was born in Montclair, NJ on Jan. 2, 1899, the son of Mary Robertson Bradbury and John Galen Howard. The Howard family moved to California in 1902 and, after graduating from Berkeley High School, Charles entered UC where he majored in journalism. While on a summer holiday in Europe in 1924, he met artist Grant Wood who influenced his decision to abandon a writing career and become a painter. Returning to NYC, he began painting and remained a self-taught artist. Although... Read full biography
Charles Houghton Howard was born in Montclair, NJ on Jan. 2, 1899, the son of Mary Robertson Bradbury and John Galen Howard. The Howard family moved to California in 1902 and, after graduating from Berkeley High School, Charles entered UC where he majored in journalism. While on a summer holiday in Europe in 1924, he met artist Grant Wood who influenced his decision to abandon a writing career and become a painter. Returning to NYC, he began painting and remained a self-taught artist. Although most of his career was spent as a resident of NYC and London, after 1927 he made many trips back to visit his family in California. He exhibited regularly with the San Francisco Art Assn, Galerie Beaux Arts, and with brothers Robert and John. A... Read full biography
Charles Houghton Howard was born in Montclair, NJ on Jan. 2, 1899, the son of Mary Robertson Bradbury and John Galen Howard. The Howard family moved to California in 1902 and, after graduating from Berkeley High School, Charles entered UC where he majored in journalism. While on a summer holiday in Europe in 1924, he met artist Grant Wood who influenced his decision to abandon a writing career and become a painter. Returning to NYC, he began painting and remained a self-taught artist. Although most of his career was spent as a resident of NYC and London, after 1927 he made many trips back to visit his family in California. He exhibited regularly with the San Francisco Art Assn, Galerie Beaux Arts, and with brothers Robert and John. A modernist, his works are often surreal or abstract. During the WWII years he lived in San Francisco and taught at the CSFA in 1945. After the war he... Read full biography
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Keywords (25)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
Art Media
- •Gouache
- •Ink
- •Oil Paint
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Modernist, Modernism (Partially Abstract, Leading Edge)
- •Surrealism, Surrealist
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •California Before 1940
Art Association
- •Salons of America
- •San Francisco Art Association-
- •Woodstock Art Association, New York
Art School
- •Columbia University Art Department, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Salons of America-
- •San Francisco Art Association
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
- •Metropolitan Museum of Art
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York
- •Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Museum of Non Objective Painting
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art