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American muralist and sculpture
Robert Boardman Howard
Born (1896-09-20 ) September 20, 1896
New York City, New York, U.S.
Died February 18, 1983(1983-02-18) (aged 86 )
Santa Cruz, California, U.S.
Other names Robert Howard, Robert B. Howard, Bob Howard Alma mater California College of the Arts , Art Students League of New York , Académie Colarossi , Académie de la Grande Chaumière Known for Sculpture Spouse Adaline Kent (1930–1957; death)Parents
Mary Robertson Bradbury (mother)
Relatives John Langley Howard (brother)
Robert Boardman Howard (1896–1983), was a prominent American artist active in Northern California in the first half of the twentieth century. He is also known as Robert Howard, Robert B. Howard and Bob Howard. Howard was celebrated for his graphic art, watercolors, oils, and murals, as well as his Art Deco bas-reliefs and his Modernist sculptures and mobiles.[1] [2]
Early life and education [ edit ]
Boardman's cast concrete relief of a phoenix (1933), above the main entrance to Coit Tower One of the two reliefs comprising Power and Light (1948), Howard's cast concrete sculpture at Pacific Gas and Electric Substation, San Francisco, California
Howard was born in New York City on September 20, 1896, to artist Mary Robertson Bradbury (1864–1963) and architect John Galen Howard [3] [2] Social Realist muralist John Langley Howard (1902–1999); Abstract-Surrealist painter, Charles Houghton Howard (1899–1978); architect, Henry Temple Howard (1894–1967) and Jeanette Howard Wallace (1905–1998).[4] [5] [6] [7]
When he was six years old, the family moved to Northern California.[8] Hearst Memorial Mining Building at the University of California, Berkeley. Robert completed grammar school, but dropped out of Berkeley High School and was tutored privately by Arthur Upham Pope with a focus on art history.[3]
Between 1913 and 1916 he studied under Xavier Martinez , Eric Spencer Macky , Worth Ryder , and Perham Wilhelm Nahl at California School of Arts and Crafts (today's California College of the Arts ) in Berkeley.[9] Alexander Calder in 1915 during the Panama–Pacific International Exposition .[2] Woodstock, New York , where he participated in an early Maverick Festival near Woodstock.[3] Art Students League of New York studying under Kenneth Hayes Miller , and F. Luis Mora .[2] [10]
He returned to California in 1917, joined the United States Army Signal Corps , and was sent to France.[2] World War I he studied in Koblenz with the American printmaker George Taylor Plowman, and in Paris at the Academie Colarossi and the Academie de la Grand Chaumiere .[2] Alexander Calder and the two traveled together.[2] The Road to Hell , was accepted to the 1920 Salon in Paris and was later exhibited in San Francisco.[2]
In February 1923 he found employment at the firm of J. H. Keefe in San Francisco making architectural ornaments.[3] [11]
In the summer of 1924, Howard joined his former art teacher Worth Ryder, and artist Chiura Obata on a three months camping and sketching trip to the High Sierra Nevada country in California.[3] [3]
In March 1925 his display of Modernist paintings and sculpture at San Francisco's Galerie des Beaux Arts created much interest as well as a storm of controversy over the "unfortunate nude" in his painting Misfortune in a Hayfield .[citation needed Howard dismissed the hullabaloo and asserted his right to artistic freedom.[12] [13] Temple Emanuel in San Francisco and for the First Congregational Church in Oakland, he traveled to Europe to study Romanesque sculpture.[citation needed By December 1926, he had returned to the San Francisco Bay Area via New York City, and accepted several commissions to paint decorative mural maps for the bay ferries.[14] James Blanding Sloan .[15] [citation needed His letters describing adventures in Europe, the Middle East, India, Ceylon, and Indonesia were serialized in The Argus newspaper.[citation needed In January 1929, the Galerie des Beaux Arts staged a one-man show of his recent drawings, watercolors, and carvings to rave reviews.[2]
Three of the Howard brothers and two of their wives held a joint exhibition in the spring of 1935 at San Francisco's Paul Elder Gallery, where Robert's pastels and paintings were enthusiastically received.[16] [citation needed Despite the challenges of his ever-increasing deafness, he began teaching in 1944 at the California School of Fine Arts (today's San Francisco Art Institute ) and at Mills College in Oakland, where he was placed on the staff of the prestigious Creative Arts Workshop .[17] [18] non-objective art film Meta , which depicted the slow-motion action of various colors dropped into water.
In January 1949, the University of California, Berkeley staged a massive retrospective exhibition of all facets of his art.[2]
Death and legacy [ edit ]
Robert Boardman Howard died on February 18, 1983, in Santa Cruz , California , at the age of 86.[19] [20] San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA),[21] Oakland Museum of California ,[22] Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco ,[23] Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy,[24] Rhode Island School of Design Museum ,[25] Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art ,[26]
Personal life [ edit ]
Howard was married to fellow artist Adaline Kent on August 5, 1930, after they worked together on the Pacific Stock Exchange building, a Miller and Pflueger architecture firm project.[27] [1]
Works by Robert Boardman Howard
Year
Title
Location
Artist(s )
Material(s )
Notes
1927
Mural Room
Ahwahnee Hotel , Yosemite National Park
Robert Boardman Howard
Mural on painted linen (toile pente wallpaper)
[28]
1929–1930
San Francisco Stock Exchange and the Stock Exchange Lunch Club, San Francisco, California
Robert Boardman Howard
Decorative reliefs, murals, brass banister for the staircase
Featured on the interior doors, windows and ceiling beams.[2] [29]
1931–1932
Paramount Theatre , Oakland, California
Robert Boardman Howard, Ralph Stackpole
Decorative reliefs (also called graffito-work)
Featured on the auditorium walls, stage, and ceiling.[30]
1933
Phoenix
Coit Tower , San Francisco, California
Robert Boardman Howard
Bas-relief, cast concrete
Located above the main entrance
1939
The Whales
City College of San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Robert Boardman Howard
Fountain, cast composite of concrete and black granite
Originally sculpted for the Golden Gate International Exposition , and it later it lived in front of the California Academy of Sciences .[31]
1939
Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, California
Robert Boardman Howard
Murals
Four massive murals and assorted sculptures in the Brazil Building, California Building, Western State Building, and Ghirardelli Building.[2]
1948
Power and Light
Pacific Gas and Electric Substation, San Francisco, California
Robert Boardman Howard
Two bas-relief in cast concrete
1950
Multiple Compass
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Robert Boardman Howard
Air-kinetic sculpture made of balsa wood, linen, pigmented adhesive, acrylic and stainless steel
[32]
c.1950
Berkeley High School Community Theatre, Berkeley, California
Robert Boardman Howard, Jacques Schnier
Multiple bas-reliefs
Located on the exterior of the building, Art Deco -style and very large sized.[2]
c.1958
Hydro-Gyro
San Jose IBM Research Center, San Jose, California
Robert Boardman Howard
Water-kinetic sculpture
One of his largest works standing at 40-foot-high, and three-tiered.[1] [2] [19]
1964
Undine
Mrs. Clinton Walker House , Carmel Point, California
Robert Howard
Crushed stone and copper ore sculpture. It sits on a base that can be rotated for viewing.
The 5 feet 7 inches (1.70 m ) sculpture is on the deck of the Mrs. Clinton Walker House.[33]
1973
Naked Man
UC Santa Cruz 's Kresge College , Santa Cruz, California
Robert Boardman Howard
Naked man hangs from a rope anchored to the side of Kresge Town Hall.[34]
Exhibitions [ edit ]
For a more complete list, including some reviews and exhibited titles, see note [2]
1920 - Salons des Artistes Français, Paris, France;
1921-1951 - Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, California;
1921-1972 (with prizes in 1923, 1924, 1925, 1941, 1943, 1944, 1946) San Francisco Art Association Annuals, San Francisco, California;
1922 – Salons of America, New York, New York;
1922-1924 - Annual Exhibitions of the Arts & Crafts Club, Carmel-by-the-Sea , California;
1923 – National Sculpture Society (N.S.S.), New York;
1923 - Western Painters of Southern California, Los Angeles, California;
1923 - Print Rooms (Robert Howard's first one-man exhibition), San Francisco, California;
1923-1930 - The League of Fins Arts, Berkeley, California;
1923-1933 – Gallerie des Beaux Arts, San Francisco, California;
1923-1947 – Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, California;
1927 - American Institute of Graphic Arts , Oakland, California;
1927 - California State Fair, Sacramento, California;
1927 - Boston Art Club , Boston, Massachusetts;
1927 - American Institute of Architects , San Francisco, California;
1927-1928 Modern Gallery Group at the East-West Gallery, San Francisco, California;
1932-1948 – California Palace of the Legion of Honor (C.P.L.H), San Francisco, California;
1933 - Gump's Gallery, San Francisco, California;
1935-1976 – San Francisco Museum of Art (SFMA) , California;
1936-1947 - Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago;
1937 – Corcoran Gallery of Art , Washington, D.C.;
1937, 1941, 1943, 1944 – San Francisco Art Association First Medal for Sculpture[35]
1939 – World's Fair, New York, New York;
1939 – Golden Gate International Exposition (G.G.I.E.), San Francisco, California;
1943-1950 – de Young Museum , San Francisco, California;
1948-1955 – Whitney Museum of American Art , New York, New York;
1949 – Retrospective, University of California at Berkeley, California;[2]
1951 - Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York, New York;
1951-1955 – São Paulo, Brazil;
1956 – 1956 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings, Whitney Museum of American Art , New York City, New York;[36]
1962 - World's Fair, Seattle, Washington;
1962-1964 – Salon de Mai , Paris, France;
1969-1974 – Oakland Museum of California , Oakland, California.
1971 – San Francisco Art Commission, San Francisco, California;
Awards and honors [ edit ]
1925 – Ann Bremer prize for painting "Mount Tamalpais", San Francisco Art Association ;[3] [29]
1946 – "for Eyrie," San Francisco Art Association;
1951 – "Night Watch," San Francisco Art Commission;
1955 – "Rocket," San Francisco Art Institute.[20]
2013 – Preservation Award, Art Deco Society of California[37]
Membership [ edit ]
California Society Mural Artists, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco Museum of Art (SFMA) , UC Berkeley Art Museum , Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) .[20]
References [ edit ]
^ a b c Moss, Stacey (1988). The Howards: First Family of Bay Area Modernism . Oakland, Calif.: Oakland Museum. pp. 34–43, 71, 102–103, 110–111.
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Edwards, Robert W. (2012). Jennie V. Cannon: The Untold History of the Carmel and Berkeley Art Colonies, Vol. 1 . Oakland, Calif.: East Bay Heritage Project. pp. 195, 257, 446–450, 689. ISBN 9781467545679 "Jennie V. Cannon: The Untold History of the Carmel and Berkeley Art Colonies, vol. One, East Bay Heritage Project, Oakland, 2012; by Robert W. Edwards" . Archived from the original on 2016-04-29. Retrieved 2016-06-07 .
^ a b c d e f g Halteman Schwartz, Ellen (1987). Hailey, Gene (ed.). California Art Research, Abstract from WPA Project 2874 . Vol. 17. Works Progress Administration . ISBN 0910938-88-1
^ Michelson, Alan. "John Galen Howard" . Pacific Coast Architecture Database (PCAD) . Retrieved November 26, 2020 .
^ "San Francisco Arts Commission - John Langley Howard" . 199.167.78.27 . Retrieved 2020-10-15 .
^ Bonetti, David (2001-10-02). "SFMOMA names curator, Rosa to succeed Betsky in architecture post" . SFGate . Retrieved 2020-10-15 .
^ Latimer, Tirza (2017). "Nearly Forgotten by History, Charles Howard Still Surprises" . KQED . Retrieved 2020-10-15 .
^ "Electric Substation and the Art World" . Art and Architecture SF . September 7, 2012. Retrieved November 5, 2014 .
^ Opitz, Glenn B., ed. (1986). Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers ISBN 978-0-938290-04-9
^ Morgan, Ann Lee (2018-10-04). The Oxford Dictionary of American Art & Artists ISBN 978-0-19-107388-5
^ The Oakland Tribune: 28 January 1923, p.A-11; 30 January 1923, p.10-A.
^ The Argonaut (San Francisco, CA), 28 March 1925, p.11.
^ The Oakland Tribune: 22 March 1925, p.S-5; 29 March 1925, p.S-7.
^ The Oakland Tribune, 23 January 1927, p. 8-M.
^ The Argus (San Francisco, CA), January 1928, p. 4.
^ The San Francisco News, 4 May 1935, p. 22.
^ "Howard to Teach at Mills" . Oakland Tribune . June 24, 1945. Retrieved 2020-10-14 .
^ The Oakland Tribune: 12 March 1944, p. 2-B; 9 July 1944, p.2-b; 9 September 1945, p.2-C.
^ a b "Obituaries, Robert B. Howard" . Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research, California Digital Newspaper Collection (CDNC) . Santa Cruz Sentinel. February 20, 1983. Retrieved 2020-10-15 .
^ a b c "Biography of Robert Boardman Howard (1896-1983)" . Artprice . Retrieved November 5, 2014 .
^ "Howard, Robert B." SFMOMA . Retrieved 2020-10-15 .
^ "A77.25.1 Study for "Custodian" sculpture" . Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) Collections . Retrieved 2020-10-15 .
^ "Robert Boardman Howard" . FAMSF Search the Collections . 2018-09-21. Retrieved 2020-10-15 .
^ "Robert Boardman Howard, Miscreant" . Phillips Academy, Addison Gallery of American Art . Retrieved 2020-10-15 .
^ "Robert Boardman Howard, Untitled" . RISD Museum . Retrieved 2020-10-15 .
^ West, Sarah (2003-10-10). "Guest curator visits museum" . The Utah Statesman . Retrieved 2020-10-15 .
^ "California Art Research: John Galen Howard, Robert Boardman Howard, Charles Houghton Howard, Adaline Kent, Jane Berlandina" . Internet Archive . San Francisco Public Library. Retrieved October 14, 2020 .
^ "Favorite Yosemite Spots: The Mural Room at The Ahwahnee" . DNC Parks and Resorts at Yosemite, Inc. and National Park Service. August 15, 2013. Archived from the original on September 21, 2013. Retrieved February 21, 2015 .
^ a b "Stock Exchange Building to Open Soon" . Newspapers.com . Reno Gazette-Journal. December 30, 1929. p. 10 . Retrieved 2020-10-15 .
^ "History of the Paramount Theatre" . Paramount Theatre - Oakland, California . Retrieved February 21, 2015 .
^ Hamlin, Jesse (January 13, 2009). "Stone Orcas wait to frolic at City College" . SFGate . San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved February 21, 2015 .
^ Baker, Kenneth (2010-11-14). "Robert B. Howard's 'Compass': review" . SFGate . Retrieved 2020-10-15 .
^ Joan Woods (May 8, 1964). "Carmel Has Its Own 'Mermaid' . The San Francisco Examiner . San Francisco, California. Retrieved 2023-04-27 .
^ White, Dan. "Kresge icons: The Naked Guy and the Town Hall silkscreens" . UC Santa Cruz Special Reports . Retrieved 2020-10-12 .
^ "History of the Paramount Theatre" . Paramount Theatre - Oakland, California . Retrieved November 5, 2014 .
^ "1956 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings" . whitney.org . Retrieved 2020-10-15 .
^ "Preservation Awards" . Art Deco Society of California . Retrieved 2020-10-15 .
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