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1912 - 1984 New Orleans, Louisiana. Known for: Bayou landscape, French Quarter scenes.
The following, submitted by Nina Killeen, is the obituary of the artist from the New Orleans paper, "Times Picayune / The States", Friday August 10, 1984:. Newton Reeve Howard, who designed and... Read full biography
The following, submitted by Nina Killeen, is the obituary of the artist from the New Orleans paper, "Times Picayune / The States", Friday August 10, 1984:. Newton Reeve Howard, who designed and supervised the construction of Monkey Hill in Audubon Park during the Depression, died Wednesday evening... Read full biography
The following, submitted by Nina Killeen, is the obituary of the artist from the New Orleans paper, "Times Picayune / The States", Friday August 10, 1984:. Newton Reeve Howard, who designed and supervised the construction of Monkey Hill in Audubon Park during the Depression, died Wednesday evening at his home in New Orleans. He was 72. Mr. Howard, a 1929 graduate of the Tulane University School of Architecture was in charge of the Monkey Hill Project for the Works Progress Administration, one... Read full biography
The following, submitted by Nina Killeen, is the obituary of the artist from the New Orleans paper, "Times Picayune / The States", Friday August 10, 1984:. Newton Reeve Howard, who designed and supervised the construction of Monkey Hill in Audubon Park during the Depression, died Wednesday evening at his home in New Orleans. He was 72. Mr. Howard, a 1929 graduate of the Tulane University School of Architecture was in charge of the Monkey Hill Project for the Works Progress Administration, one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs designed to get Americans working during the 1930s. The hill was built to let children in flat New Orleans have an idea of what a real hill looks like. Although Mr. Howard was an architect, he was... Read full biography
The following, submitted by Nina Killeen, is the obituary of the artist from the New Orleans paper, "Times Picayune / The States", Friday August 10, 1984:. Newton Reeve Howard, who designed and supervised the construction of Monkey Hill in Audubon Park during the Depression, died Wednesday evening at his home in New Orleans. He was 72. Mr. Howard, a 1929 graduate of the Tulane University School of Architecture was in charge of the Monkey Hill Project for the Works Progress Administration, one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs designed to get Americans working during the 1930s. The hill was built to let children in flat New Orleans have an idea of what a real hill looks like. Although Mr. Howard was an architect, he was better known as an artist, working in oils, acrylics and watercolors. He recently sold to the Smithsonian Institution seve... Read full biography
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Keywords (20)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
Art Media
Art Style
- •Abstraction and Realism; Semi Abstract
- •Realist, Representational, Naturalist Style
- •Tonalist, Tonalism
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Regionalism, Local Scene
- •Urban Landscape, Cityscape
- •War Scenes, Military Genre, Figure, Portrait, Battles
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Hawaiian Islands and/or South Seas, Tahiti, Bali
Art School
- •School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Commercial Art and Design
- •Figure Specialty
- •WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings