biografía de Alfred Cornelius HOWLAND (1838-1909)

Lugar de nacimiento: Walpole, NH

Lugar de defunción: Pasadena, CA

Direcciones: NYC/Williamstown, MA

Profesión: Landscape and genre painter

Estudios: Walpole Acad.; received his first artistic training from a Boston engraver, and then apprenticed to a Boston engraver, 1855-57, and to a NYC lithographer, 1857-59; Düsseldorf Acad., 1860, and with Albert Flamm there, 1861-62; Paris, 1862-65 with Emile Lambinet.

Exposiciones: NAD, 1865-1909 (annually); Brooklyn AA, 1867-84; AIC, 1888; PAFA, 1888, 1893; PPE, 1915

Asociaciones: ANA, 1874; NA, 1882; A. Fund S., 1873; Century Assn.

Obra: Smithonian Inst.; High Museum, Atlanta, GA; Yale Univ. Art Gallery; Milwaukee Art Center; NMAA; U.S. Naval Acad.

Comentarios: A painter of rustic and anecdotal genre scenes and bucolic landscapes, A.C. Howland became committed to the Barbizon style through his friendships with Theodore Rousseau and François Millet. In 1865, he returned to NYC and spent most of his career there, well-liked among his peers, including Winslow Homer and Homer D. Martin. About the turn of the century he also had a studio in Williamstown, MA. He was a regular exhibitor at the National Academy, and his subjects reflect his trips to the scenic regions of France, Holland, Quebec, Vermont and New Hampshire (along the Connecticut River), Pennsylvania (on the Bushkill River). Several years before his death, he began to spend winters in Pasadena, CA.

Fuentes: G&W; DAB; De Kay, Illustrated Catalogue of Oil Paintings by the Late Alfred Cornelius Howland, N.A. (1910); Art Annual, VII (1909), 77, obit.; Swan, BA; Rutledge, MHS; Clement and Hutton; Champlin and Perkins; CAB; More recently, see Naylor, NAD; Hughes, Artists in California. 270; Pisano, The Long Island Landscape, n.p.; 300 Years of American Art, vol. 1, 293; Falk, Exh. Record Series.