Howard Russell Butler

Background

Butler, Howard Russell was born on March 3, 1856 in New York, United States. Son of William Allen and Mary R. (Marshall) Butler.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Princeton University, 1876, Master of Fine Arts, 1923. Bachelor of Laws, Columbia, 1882.

Career

Practiced law, New York, 1881-1884. Painter in oil; honorable mention, Paris Salon, 1886, Pennsylvania Academy, 1888. Medals, Paris Exposition, 1889, 1900, Chicago Exposition, 1893, Atlanta, 1895, Philadelphia and Saint Louis, Buffalo, San Francisco expns.

Carnegie prize, National Academy of Design, 1916.

2d prize, Duxbury Exposition, 1917. Founder, 1889, president, 1889-1906, American Fine Arts Society.

President Carnegie Music Hall, 1896-1905. Accompanied the United States Naval Observatory Expedition to Baker, Oregon, and painted the solar eclipse of June 8, 1918 (painting owned by American Museum Natural History).

Painted solar eclipses of September 10, 1923, Lompoc, California, and of January 24, 1925, Middletown, Connecticut.

Appointed supervisor of America Museum Natural History on astronomical exhibits, 1925. Paintings on exhibition in Museum of Natural History, Metropolitan Museum, Lotos Club, et cetera, also has painted portraits of many prominent citizens, including 13 portraits of the late Andrew Carnegie for libraries, A.N.A., 1898. North.A., 1902. Home: Princeton, New Jersey.

Achievements

• Howard Russell Butler has been listed as a notable artist by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Virginia Hays, November 25, 1890.

Father:

William Allen Butler

Mother:

Mary R. (Marshall) Butler

Spouse:

Virginia Hays