Creator Record
Metadata
Name |
Thomas, Howard |
Dates & places of birth and death |
Born 1889, Mount Pleasant, Ohio Died 1971, Chapel Hill, North Carolina |
Nationality |
American |
Occupation |
Studied at Ohio State University and at the Art Institute in Chicago where he worked with George Bellows. He taught art at State Teachers' College in Milwaukee before coming to North Carolina in 1942-43 to teach at the Women's College of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (now UNC-G). He then taught at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, before joining the art faculty at the University of Georgia in Athens in 1945. He remained at the university until his retirement in 1965 after which he moved to Carrboro with his wife and fellow artist Anne Wall Thomas. |
Notes |
Howard Thomas was a painter of the American scene from the beginning of his career to the mid 1940's. Thomas made his first trip to the South for a speaking engagement in 1941 and the red earth around Asheville, North Carolina interested him and thus began his use of earth as a pigment source. In the tradition of old masters, he used mortar and pestle to mix his pigments. Exhibited at: Georgia Museum of Art, Georgia, after 1996 Columbus (GA) Museum of Art, Georgia, after 1996 Harn Museum of Art, Florida, 1996 High Museum of Art, Georgia, 1966 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, n.d. Whitney Museum of Art, New York, n.d. Art Institute, Illinois, n.d. Milwaukee Art Center, Wisconsin, n.d. Collections: Georgia Museum of Art High Museum of Art North Carolina Museum of Art Ackland Art Museum Hunter Museum of Art Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte Smithsonian's American Art Museum Weatherspoon Art Museum |
