Paul Cadmus
Queer Places:
The Art Students League of New York, 215 W 57th St, New York, NY 10019
The Café Latino, 15 Barrow St, New York, NY 10014
Isabella Blackstone Howland (October 3, 1895 - July 18, 1974) lived and worked in New York City. She drew portraits, painted on canvas, sketched on paper, and sculpted caricature busts of people in the art world. She wrote that she could do anything with her hands.
Howland was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. From her youth she knew she wanted to be an artist. She had her earliest artistic training at age 16. Her art education included time at the Boston Museum School and the Art Students League in New York City. She completed her secondary education in France and Germany, moved back to the United States afterwards, and in 1920 travelled again to Europe. In 1922 she settled in Greenwich Village and spent summers in Woodstock to paint landscapes and still-lifes. She actively painted in the 1920s, and had three shows in 1927, 1929, and 1931. During the Depression she worked for the Public Works of Art Project and the Works Progress Administration. In 1934 she married Armando Zegri, and they divorced in 1937. While they were married they owned a club in the West Village named The Café Latino. She began teaching at a private school in the early 1940s while dealing with some personal difficulties. She found religion which comforted her as she dealt with her mother's declining health and her sister's waning mental state.
Howland had many friends in the art world and regularly received requests to exhibit at museums. She became known as an accomplished portrait artist, and she was commissioned many times to execute drawings or sculptures. She dabbled in writing and illustrating stories, and produced a set of 33 Christmas cards featuring two monks.
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Several of her works are owned by the Whitney Museum of American Art,[1] and she is also represented in the collection of the Ogunquit Museum of American Art.[3] Her papers are currently in the collection of the Archives of American Art.[2] Ten of her caricatures of artists are owned by the National Portrait Gallery.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]
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