High Street, Newburyport, Mass., 1921

Provenance

Private collection, New Jersey

Exhibited

Macbeth Gallery, New York, New York, New England Streets by Felicie Waldo Howell, January 3 – 23, 1922, no. 2 (as High Street, Newburyport).
Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, New York, Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture Contributed by the Founders of the Galleries, June 27, 1924, no. 135 (as High Street, Newburyport).

Literature

(Possibly) Hamilton Easter Field, “Comment on the Arts,” The Arts, December 1921, pp. 178–181.
New England Streets by Felicie Waldo Howell (Macbeth Gallery, 1922), no. 2.
Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture Contributed by the Founders of the Galleries (Grand Central Art Galleries, 1924), no. 135, ill.
Letter from original owner to Corcoran Gallery of Art, n.d.

Related Works

Peirce Nichols House, Salem, 1920, oil on canvas, 30 × 25 inches, signed and dated lower left: Felicie Waldo Howell / 1920; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gramercy Park, New York, 1920, oil on canvas, 30¼ x 24⅛ inches, signed and dated lower right: Félicie Waldo Howell – 1920 –; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana

Note

Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Howell studied at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C., and began exhibiting her work while still in school. Howell’s early work often depicted the interiors and exteriors of classic New England architecture, later adding landscapes and cityscapes to her oeuvre. In High Street, Newburyport, Mass., Howell most likely depicts on the left, the fence in front of Timothy Dexter House at 201 High Street, a historic 1771 Federal-style mansion. Today, Howell’s paintings can be found in many esteemed collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago.