John Newton Howitt (1885-1958), Bass Fishing

Lot 361

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United States

Copley Fine Art Auctions is the world's leading American sporting art auction company. Located in Hingham, MA, Copley specializes in antique decoys and 19th- and 20th-century American, sporting, and wildlife paintings. Principal Stephen O'Brien Jr., a fourth-generation sportsman with a refined colle...Read more

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Lot Description

John Newton Howitt (1885-1958)
Bass Fishing
signed "John Newton Howitt" lower left
oil on canvas, 29 1/2 by 23 1/2 in.

Howitt was born in White Plains, New York, in 1885. As a young boy with polio, he was encouraged to draw by his father, and went on to study at the Art Students League. He created many covers and illustrations for magazines such as "Liberty," "Colliers", and "The Saturday Evening Post" during the Golden Age of Illustration between 1910 and 1930, in addition to advertisement work. During the Depression, he painted covers for pulp magazines such as "Horror Stories", "Dime Detective," and "Terror Tails," which he signed only with "H" but which garnered him fame today. In the 1940s, he returned to mainstream magazine illustration. Howitt died in Port Jervis, New York, in 1958 after a long, successful career as a working artist.

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