{{Short description|American artist (1905 or 1915–1990)}} {{Infobox artist | name = Humbert Lincoln Howard | image = Humbert Howard self portrait.jpg | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 1905 or 1915 | birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. | death_date = 1990 | death_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. | education = Howard University; University of Pennsylvania | field = Painter, ceramicist | training = | movement = | works = | patrons = | awards = | spouse = | partner = | website = {{URL|humbert-howard.com/}} }}
'''Humbert Howard''' (1905 or 1915–1990) was an American artist and art director of the Pyramid Club.
==Biography== Howard was born in Philadelphia. Sources differ on Howard's birth year, some stating 1905<ref name="AskArt">{{cite web |title=Humbert Howard - Biography |url=https://www.askart.com/artist/Humbert_L_Howard/116081/Humbert_L_Howard.aspx |website=AskArt |access-date=10 June 2022}}</ref><ref name="MutualArt">{{cite web |title=Humbert Howard |url=https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Humbert-Howard/785EF2F3C39E9759 |website=MutualArt |access-date=10 June 2022 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Woodmere Art Museum2">{{cite web |title=Howard, Humbert |url=https://woodmereartmuseum.org/explore-online/collection/artist/humbert-howard |website=Woodmere Art Museum |access-date=10 June 2022 |language=en-gb}}</ref><ref name="Howard Heartsfield Studio">{{cite web |title=Humbert Howard |url=http://howardheartsfieldgallery.com/humbert-howard.html |website=Howard Heartsfield Studio/Gallery |access-date=10 June 2022 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Delaware Art Museum">{{cite web |title=Humbert Howard |url=https://emuseum.delart.org/people/5718/humbert-howard |website=Delaware Art Museum |access-date=10 June 2022 |language=en}}</ref> and some stating 1915.<ref name="Temple Digital Collection">{{cite web |title=Humbert Howard at a Pyramid Club Garden Party |url=https://digital.library.temple.edu/digital/collection/p15037coll17/id/681/ |website=Temple Digital Collection |access-date=10 June 2022}}</ref><ref name="Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution">{{cite web |title=Oral history interview with Humbert Howard, 1988 Oct. 26 |url=https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-humbert-howard-11445 |website=Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution |access-date=10 June 2022 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="PAFA">{{cite web |title=Humbert L. Howard, "Untitled [Vase with flowers]" (n.d.) |url=https://www.pafa.org/museum/collection/item/untitled-vase-flowers |website=Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts |access-date=10 June 2022 |date=6 December 2019}}</ref> Howard attended Howard University and the University of Pennsylvania. During the 1930s Howard worked for the Philadelphia Works Progress Administration's Art project (WPA).<ref name="AskArt"/>
Howard was best known for being an active member of the Pyramid Club, serving as the art/exhibition director from 1940 through 1958.<ref name="Temple Digital Collection"/><ref name="Smith">{{cite web |last1=Smith |first1=Synatra |title=Humbert Howardt |url=https://philamuseum.libguides.com/blog/Humbert-Howard |website=Four Elements - PMA LibGuides |publisher=Philadelphia Museum of Art |access-date=10 June 2022}}</ref> The Pyramid Club was an African-American social club in Philadelphia. Howard selected works for the club's annual exhibitions in New York and Philadelphia.<ref name="Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution"/>
From 1959 to 1961,<ref name="Delaware Art Museum"/> Howard studied at the Barnes Foundation, an experience that affected his style, making it more abstract.<ref name="AskArt"/>
His work was included in the 1967 exhibition ''The Evolution of Afro-American Artists'' at the City College of New York.<ref name="Delaware Art Museum"/>
Howard died in 1990 in Philadelphia.<ref name="AskArt"/>
Howard's work is in the collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,<ref name="PAFA"/> the Philadelphia Museum of Art,<ref name="PMA2">{{cite web |title=Ceramic Pot with Painted Faces |url=https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/296965 |website=Philadelphia Museum of Art |access-date=10 June 2022 |language=en}}</ref> the Delaware Art Museum,<ref name="Delaware Art Museum"/> and the Woodmere Art Museum.<ref name="Woodmere Art Museum3">{{cite web |title=Rock and Roll |url=https://woodmereartmuseum.org/explore-online/collection/rock-and-roll |website=Woodmere Art Museum |access-date=10 June 2022 |language=en-gb}}</ref> His paper are in the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution.<ref name="Archives of American Art2">{{cite web |title=Humbert Howard papers, 1947-1981 |url=https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/humbert-howard-papers-10788 |website=Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution |access-date=10 June 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
==Legacy== In 2000 his work was included in ''An Exuberant Bounty: Prints and Drawings by African Americans'' at the Philadelphia Museum of Art].<ref name="Philadelphia Museum of Art">{{cite web |title=Exhibitions - An Exuberant Bounty: Prints and Drawings by African Americans |url=https://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/2000/31.html |website=Philadelphia Museum of Art |access-date=10 June 2022}}</ref> Howard's work was included in the 2015 exhibition ''We Speak: Black Artists in Philadelphia, 1920s-1970s'' at the Woodmere Art Museum.<ref name="Woodmere Art Museum">{{cite web |title=We Speak: Black Artists in Philadelphia, 1920s-1970s|url=https://woodmereartmuseum.org/experience/exhibitions/we-speak-black-artists-in-philadelphia-1920s-1970s-95 |website=Woodmere Art Museum |access-date=10 June 2022 |language=en-gb}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Further reading == * ''Humbert Howard: Philadelphia Painter'', retrospective exhibition catalog, Levy Gallery for the Arts, 1996
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