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Howlett, Donald Roger was born on March 27, 1945 in Syracuse, New York, United States. Son of Donald Bliss and Dorothy Irene (Trautman) Howlett.
(The story of elegant Bostonians has been told many times,...)
The story of elegant Bostonians has been told many times, notably by John Marquand in The Late George Apley and Cleveland Amory in The Proper Bostonians. Now D. Roger Howlett writes about Boston Brahmin painter Gertrude Beals Bourne (1868-1962). Lavishly illustrated with color reproductions of her beautiful Impressionist watercolors of still life, seascapes, and paintings of flowers and gardens, the book chronicles the artist's life, times, and artistic style. Born on Beacon Hill, Bourne grew up in the Back Bay and New York and began her career as a painter in the 1890s. In 1904 she married the architect Frank A. Bourne, and the couple moved to 130 Mount Vernon Street-known as "Sunflower Castle." Frank helped to found the Beacon Hill Association, Gertrude founded the Beacon Hill Garden Club, and the couple is credited with re-gentrifying Beacon Hill in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Among their friends were artists Laura Coombs Hills, Maurice Prendergast, his brother Charles Prendergast, and landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. After Frank A. Bourne died in 1936, Gertrude continued to paint and exhibit until shortly before her death in 1962. Her work was shown at such venues as the Boston Art Club, the New York Watercolor Club, the American Watercolor Society, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the National Gallery of Art. This long-overdue portrait of a significant American Impressionist painter will appeal to art historians and collectors, as well as those interested in Boston history.
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The coast of Boston's North Shore, from Revere to Marblehead, was home to a remarkable school of American Marine Impressionists. The Lynn Beach Painters flourished as a group during the last two decades of the nineteenth century, a period which saw not only the rise of European influences, but also great growth in American art in its own right. As early as the 1850s, major international artists such as William Bradford and his teacher Albert Van Beest, had been drawn to the shoreline, marshes, and fish shacks of the Lynn, Swampscott and Nahant beaches. The ensuing decades saw the area emerge as both a major resort community and an industrial center with a high concentration of wealthy art patrons. At the same time, the widespread appreciation of art and art education was evident in the passage of the Mandatory Drawing Act of 1870. The Lynn Evening Drawing School, founded as a result, was a key factor in the development of the distinctive school of painting that thrived along the North Shore. In the Lynn Beach Painters: Art Along the North Shore and its accompanying exhibition, art historian D. Roger Howlett and Lynn Historical Society curator Heather Johnson Reid for the first time recognize the group for both its cohesiveness and its significance and place it in the context of the period in American art, so strongly influenced by French Impressionism, plein-air painting and the modern Dutch school.
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Howlett, Donald Roger was born on March 27, 1945 in Syracuse, New York, United States. Son of Donald Bliss and Dorothy Irene (Trautman) Howlett.
Bachelor, Hamilton College, 1966. Master of Arts, State University of New York, Cooperstown, 1967. Postgraduate, Yale University, 1968—1969.
Member curatorial department Garvan College, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 1967—1968. Member painting department Childs Gallery, Boston, since 1970, vice president, partner, 1972—1983, president, since 1983, New York City, 1983—1991. Member committee on the visual arts Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, since 1985.
Trustee Lyme Academy Fine Arts, Old Lyme, Connecticut, 1992—2002. Founder New England Print Fair, 1999. Director, board member New England String Ensemble, since 2003, vice president, 2004—2005, president, since 2005.
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Fellow Massachusetts History Society. Member American Association Museum, Society for Propagating the Gospel Among Indians and Others in North America, Harvard Musical Association, St. Botolph Club, Boston Athenaeum.