William Henry Howe Art
American, 1846-1929
William Howe began a career as a businessman in St. Louis, and in his mid-1930s, changed course and went to Dusseldorf Germany to study art at the Royal Academy. In 1881, he went to Paris and studied with animal painters Felix Vuillefroy and Otto de Thoren. Howe also exhibited his work at the Paris Salons and the Paris Universal Exposition of 1889.
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Artist: William Henry Howe
Oil Landscape titled "French River Scene"
By William Henry Howe
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
William Henry Howe (1846–1929) was an esteemed American painter known for his remarkable depictions of rural landscapes and livestock, particularly ...
Category
Early 20th Century Hudson River School William Henry Howe Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Made in the Shade
By William Henry Howe
Located in Missouri, MO
William Henry Howe (1846-1929)
"Made in the Shade" 1887
Oil on Canvas
Signed and Dated
Site Size: approx. 14.5 x 21.5 inches
Frames Size: approx. 17.5 x 24.5 inches
Provenance: Private Collection, St. Louis, Missouri thence by descent
William Henry Howe was born in Ravenna, Ohio in 1846. Of him it was written: "In the late nineteenth century no American artist was more thoroughly identified with the painting of cows than William Henry Howe." (Richter 128). In a style that combined Tonalism and Realism, he was a painter of light-filled pastoral landscapes that sometimes had sheep as well as cattle tended by their shepherds and herders.
He began a career as a businessman in St. Louis, and in his mid-thirties, changed course and went to Dusseldorf Germany to study art at the Royal Academy. In 1881, he went to Paris and studied with animal painters Felix Vuillefroy and Otto de Thoren. He also exhibited his work at the Paris Salons and the Paris Universal Exposition of 1889.
Travels in Holland in the 1880s with other artists inspired his interest in pastoral subjects, and during that time he began his cattle paintings...
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1880s American Impressionist William Henry Howe Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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