Howitt, John Newton
Artist Name: John Newton Howitt
Category: 20thC. American Painting
Title: Moonrise
Size: 18x24
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Style: Impressionism
Subject: Landscape
Created: 1950s
Inventory #: 1331
Biography:
John Newton Howitt
Illustrator and landscape painter John Newton Howitt (1885-1958) was born in White Plains, New York. His is the classic case of an artist torn between the divergent worlds of commercial and fine artand between what he considered the higher and lower levels of commercial illustration. After a successful career in major magazine illustration, he was forced by the Depression to paint for the pulp magazines, which activity he disliked intensely. He would return, at the beginning of World War II, to magazines like Colliers and Liberty, and to his landscape painting, but, ironically, it is his illustrations of the pulps for which he is most remembered.
When, at the age of four, Howitt fell ill with polio, his father drew pictures and interested Howitt in drawing. Graduating from high school at age sixteen, Howitt studied with George Bridgman at the Art Students League in New York City. For twenty years, from 1910-1930, he painted illustrations for magazines including "Liberty", "The Saturday Evening Post", and "Colliers", as well as for books and newspaper supplement sections for the "American Sunday Monthly Magazine", "This Week", and the "New York Herald Tribune". He also created advertisements during the 1920s for Crisco Shortening, Devoe Paints, Jello Foods, Post Bran Flakes, and Vermont Marble. Meantime, he traveled North America, painting landscapes.
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