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Lot of 2 Lithographs by Frank Howell

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military Start Price:200.00 USD Estimated At:400.00 - 600.00 USD
Lot of 2 Lithographs by Frank Howell
(1) 'Magpie" 38/40 Hand Colored and signed by the artist lower right. Measures 31 1/2" x 23 3/4". Print only. (1) "Emerging Flower" Printer's Proof, signed in lower center. Image measures 27 1/2" x 27 1/2". Print only. A well-known Southwest painter, print-maker and gallery owner, he did finely rendered, etching like portraits of time-worn Native Americans. His goal was to depict the dignity of his subjects. He was born in Sioux City Iowa and raised in a small home overlooking the Missouri River. He studied art and writing at the Unviersity of Northern Iowa andtaught high school in Iowa. In the late 1960s, he moved to Colorado and opened Breckenridge Galleries. After living briefly in Taos and Colorado, he opened the Howell Gallery in Santa Fe. He was an accomplished photographer, and writer of an art computer program. -askART