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RAYMOND HOWELL (1927 - 2002)
Untitled (Fisherman and Boat at Dock)
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Oil on cotton canvas, 1978. 610x1220 mm; 24x48 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower left.
Provenance: private collection, NewYork.
A self-taught painter, Raymond Howell, according to the artist, by the age of thirty was able to be
a full-time self-supporting artist. Howell had been a longtime fixture in the Bay Area art scene. In
the mid-1960s he opened Art Associates West, a gallery and art school in San Francisco’s Haight-
Ashbury district, which operated for nearly a decade. Howell’s 1965 painting
The Brown Family
was
shown at the opening of the Oakland Museum in the
Black Perspective
exhibition, and was later
purchased for the museum collection. He had numerous solo exhibitions in San Francisco, Los
Angeles, Boston and Provincetown, and in 1999 Stanford University presented a 40-year
retrospective of his paintings.
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