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John Langley Howard

John Langley Howard (1902 - 1999) was active/lived in California, New Jersey.  John Howard is known for Genre-marine, landscape, portrait.

John Langley Howard was born in Montclair, NJ on Feb. 5, 1902.   Howard was brought to California by his parents as an infant.  After majoring in English and engineering at UC, he enrolled at the California College of Arts & Crafts (Oakland), and then continued at Art Students League in NYC under Kenneth Hayes Miller.  Returning to California in 1926, he held his first exhibition at San Francisco's Modern Gallery.  Shortly after his return, he and his wife bought a house in Monterey and spent many years there.  Howard was active as an artist until a few years before his demise in San Francisco on Nov. 15, 1999.  Originally inspired by the landscapes of Cézanne, his work evolved into Social Realism during the 1930s; however, in the early 1940s he returned to painting landscapes in a style of meticulous realism with symbolic overtones. 

Member:  Carmel AA; SFAA; Marin Society of Artists; Calif. Society of Mural Painters.

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Source: Edan Hughes, author of the book "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
Inview with the artist or his family; Who's Who in American Art 1938-70; Art of California, May 1991; SF Chronicle, 11-26-1999 (obit). 


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