Lot 19780: FELICIE WALDO MIXTER HOWELL (Hawaiian/American 1897-1968)

FELICIE WALDO MIXTER HOWELL (Hawaiian/American 1897-1968)
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
Oil on canvas
16.1in. x 30in.
Signed lower right: Felicie Howell Mixter

Felicie Waldo Howell, born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1897, was a painter of oil and watercolor coastal landscapes, shore scenes, Impressionist figures in nature, interiors, and marine scenes. Her early works were often interiors, and later she turned to landscape, shore scenes, and marine subjects. By 1917, Howell had moved to Washington D.C., where she studied at the Corcoran School of Art with E.C. Messer. Then she enrolled at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women (now Moore College of Art) and also studied with Henry Snell. In 1922, she became an Associate of the National Academy of Design in New York City, and in 1945, full Academician. Her artwork is housed in the National Gallery, Smithsonian Institution and Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and in New York City at the National Arts Club and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.