Career
Howe was a student of Otto de Thoren and Vuillefroy. He first worked in Paris, where he painted scenes from the rustic life in Normandy. According to Howe’s Biographer, “His paintings were honest transcripts from nature, faithfully cooked up from many studies and sketches from objective observations, however he knew his cattle so well that France decorated him with the Legion of Honor.”
Howe was part of the Old Lyme Art Colony centered at Florence Griswold"s boardinghouse in Old Lyme, Connecticut.
Howe there played the role of the benign "Uncle," as the younger artists called him.
