Estate of James Howell

Born in Kansas City, Missouri, USA, 1935

Lived and worked in New York, New York, USA

Died in New York, USA, 2014

"Through my life and work I have discovered harmonies in reality and inner connections between separate fields of thought. I have blended these discoveries with my life. They are essential to my work: light, spaciousness, mystical influence, movement, synchronisity, and the ideas of simplicity, sparsity, subtlety." James Howell

Biography

James Howell (1935–2014) was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and lived and worked in New York. He studied Literature at the University of Washington, Seattle (BA, 1957), before completing a five-year degree in Art and Architecture at Stanford University (1960), where he received the Humanities Prize in Architecture in 1961. He also attended the Nelson Art Institute in Kansas City and the Art Students League in Woodstock, New York.

Howell exhibited widely over a career spanning more than five decades, with solo presentations at Bartha Contemporary, London, Galerie von Bartha, Basel, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, and the Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop, among others. His work entered numerous public collections, including the Albright-Knox Art Museum, Buffalo; Das Folkwang Museum, Essen; the New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe; the Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College; Columbia University, New York; and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Estában Vicente, Segovia.