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Howard Hancock Newman (Born 1943) is active/lives in Rhode Island / Italy.  Howard Newman is known for Bronze sculpture, paintings and drawings.

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 Howard Newman is a fine artist living in Newport, Rhode Island. He is best known for his drawings and bronze sculptures, which have been compared with Umberto Boccioni’s Futurist* sculpture and Raymond Duchamp-Villon’s mechanical abstractions, and are described as “combining elements of human figures and machines into tightly interlocking geometric shapes that he assembles from separately cast pieces.”

Hilton Kramer of The New York Times wrote “Mr. Newman is something of a phenomenon. His art has the look of something that was born fully matured. It is unusual for a young sculptor to produce work as refined, as assured, as thoroughly knowing, as Howard Newman's.”

Vivian Raynor, also of The New York Times, described “A great stillness surrounds the bronze sculptures and charcoal drawings of Howard Newman. The artist packs his forms into skins as tight as any carved and modeled by the great Hindu sculptors.”

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   Howard Hancock Newman  Born:  1943
Known for:  Bronze sculpture, paintings and drawings

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Howard Newman is a fine artist living in Newport, Rhode Island. He is best known for his drawings and bronze sculptures, which have been compared with Umberto Boccioni’s Futurist* sculpture and Raymond Duchamp-Villon’s mechanical abstractions, and are described as “combining elements of human figures and machines into tightly interlocking geometric shapes that he assembles from separately cast pieces.”

Hilton Kramer of The New York Times wrote “Mr. Newman is something of a phenomenon. His art has the look of something that was born fully matured. It is unusual for a young sculptor to produce work as refined, as assured, as thoroughly knowing, as Howard Newman's.”

Vivian Raynor, also of The New York Times, described “A great stillness surrounds the bronze sculptures and charcoal drawings of Howard Newman. The artist packs his forms into skins as tight as any carved and modeled by the great Hindu sculptors.”

Upon induction to The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters* in 1980, a representative of the Institute wrote that “Newman's bronzes have the refined, assured thoroughness of a master sculptor. He works in a personal style that produces objects of extraordinary elegance. The bronzes of Howard Newman speak with a refinement rarely heard today.”

Ragnar Von Hosten of Kalejdoskop Magazine wrote: “Howard Newman is his own man with a fear and vision that explains, and maybe also sees through, a great deal of the face of our times.”

Howard Newman received a BA from Miami University of Ohio, where he studied Architecture, Cultural Anthropology, Sociology, and Classical Literature. In 1969 he graduated from Rhode Island School of Design* with a BFA in Industrial Design and an MFA in Sculpture. While at RISD, he concentrated in Silversmithing under the mentorship of master metalsmith John Prip.

In 1961, he was granted a Fulbright Scholarship* to Italy, where he and his wife Mary lived in Impruneta, south of Florence. It was there that he began making bronze sculptures.

In 1978 Newman was given a Tiffany Foundation* Fellowship.

Howard Newman exhibited at the Century Association* in New York City in 2000. He has work on permanent collection in the Gibbes Museum of Art, The Newport Art Museum, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Newark Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Sara Roby Foundation Collection, and The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. 

Submitted and written by Anne Culpepper, a researcher of the artist.

References:
The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. 21 May. 1980: n.pag. Print.

Raynor, Vivien. The New York Times 26 Feb. 1982: n.pag. Print.

Kramer, Hilton. The New York Times 14 Oct. 1977: n.pag. Print.

Von Holten, Ragnar. Kalejdoskop Magazine 1976: n.pag. Print.

"Newman Restoration Exhibit Draws Supporters to New York City." Newport Gazette, Summer 2000: n. pag. Print., No 147

RI Art Archive Project. "In The Studio: Howard Newman."

Riaaproject.blogspot.com. N.p., 12 Dec. 2013. Web.

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