Background
Howat, John Keith was born on April 12, 1937 in Denver, Colorado, United States. Son of James Bowcott and Nancy Selden (Skinker) Howat.
(Over-sized hardback book with dust jacket titled THE HUDS...)
Over-sized hardback book with dust jacket titled THE HUDSON RIVER AND ITS PAINTERS by John K. Howat with a preface by James Biddle and foreword by Carl Carmer. Published by American Legacy Press in 1983. Beautifully illustrated with color and black and white reproductions. See my photographs (6) of this book on main listing page. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-Base2-C-1-top-middle) rareviewbooks
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( The life of landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church (18...)
The life of landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church (1826 1900) encompassed an expansive period in United States history, when the nation’s commercial, diplomatic, cultural, and scientific achievements blossomed. This lavishly illustrated bookthe only comprehensive study of the artist availabledescribes Church’s life and career and details the ways in which the artist played a part in America’s development during the nineteenth century. John K. Howat, a distinguished scholar of American landscape painting, discusses the many talents of Frederic Church while also explaining the rich complexities of his major works. One of Thomas Cole’s illustrious pupils at an early age, Church became a key figure associated with the Hudson River School. His adventurous international travels and the paintings that resulted from his expeditions brought him far-reaching attention, and his pictures often commanded record-breaking sums. Church’s friendships and interestsreligion, history, literature, music, architecture, agriculture, and scienceas well as his skills as a crafty entrepreneur are explored. Beautiful reproductions of Church’s extraordinary home Olana, which one can visit today in eastern New York, are also featured. For admirers of the Hudson River School, American landscape painting, and the history of nineteenth-century America, Frederic Church is an invaluable book to own.
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(The Hudson River And Its Painters by John K. Howat. New Y...)
The Hudson River And Its Painters by John K. Howat. New York: The Viking Press, 1972. Early Edition. 208 pages. Oversize. Hardcover w/Jacket. B&W, color illustrations throughout, gilt-stamping. Light wear to binding, covers, pages
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Howat, John Keith was born on April 12, 1937 in Denver, Colorado, United States. Son of James Bowcott and Nancy Selden (Skinker) Howat.
Graduate Phillips Exeter Academy, 1955. Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1959, Master of Arts, 1962. Ford fellow New York University Institute Fine Arts, 1965-1966.
M.Anne Hadley, January 21, 1958.
Curator Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York, 1962-1964. Ford fellow New York University Institute Fine Arts, 1965—1966. Chester Dale fellow Metropolitan Museum Art, New York City, 1966—1967, assistant curator department American paintings and sculpture, 1967-1968, associate curator-in-charge, 1968-1970, curator, 1970-1982, chairman departments American art, 1982—2001.
Member advisory committee archives American art Smithsonian Institution, since 1969. Trustee Archives of America Art, since 1988, New York Society Library., since 2002.
( The life of landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church (18...)
(Examines the historical development of the artists who fo...)
(Over-sized hardback book with dust jacket titled THE HUDS...)
(Viking 1972 Folio, 1st ptg in dj w mended tears)
(The Hudson River And Its Painters by John K. Howat. New Y...)
Member advising committee archives American art Smithsonian Institution, 1969. Clubs: Union, Century Association.
Married Anne Hadley, June 21, 1958. Children: Karen Louise, Laura Anne.