Edith Lucile Howard (1885–1959) was an American

landscape artist Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction in painting of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, rivers, trees, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a cohe ...

. She was born in Bellow Falls, Vermont, and died of cancer in Moorestown, New Jersey, in 1959.

Philadelphia Ten

Edith Howard was a founder and member of the

Philadelphia Ten The Philadelphia Ten, also known as The Ten, was a group of American female artists who exhibited together from 1917 to 1945. The group, eventually numbering 30 painters and sculptors, exhibited annually in Philadelphia and later had traveling ex ...

. The Philadelphia Ten was exclusive to women artist and sculptors, active from 1917 to 1945. A partial list of members includes, Eleanor Abrams, Katharine Marie Barker,

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, Cora S. Brooks, Isabel Branson Cartwright, Constance Cochrane,

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, Arrah Lee Gaul, Lucile Howard, Helen Kiner McCarthy, Katharine Hood McCormick, Maude Drein Bryant, Fern Coppedge, Nancy Maybin Ferguson,

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, Sue May Gill, Susette Schultz Keast, Marian T. MacIntosh, Emma Fordyce MacRae, Mary Elizabeth Price, Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts, Susan Gertrude Schell, Edith Longstreth Wood,

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, Cornelia Van Auken Chapin, Beatrice Fenton,

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, Joan Hartley, and Mary Louise Lawser.

Career

Howard studied with Henry B. Snell and

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at the

Philadelphia School of Design for Women in Philadelphia Philadelphia School of Design for Women (1848–1932) was an art school for women in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Housed in the former Edwin Forrest House at 1346 North Broad Street, under the directorship of Emily Sartain ( ...

, which is now called the Moore College of Art & Design. Howard entered college at the age of nineteen and received her diploma in 1908. Her first exhibition was at the

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in 1914. She taught at the School of Design for Women,

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and School of Art in New York and retired in 1949.

Exhibitions

Exhibition of water color paintings selected from The Exhibition of The Philadelphia Water Color Club. February 1 to 23, 1914. Under the name of "Lucille Howard", Edith Lucille Howard authored an article about the work of young fashion students inspired by artifacts in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology (September 1920)

References

1885 births 1959 deaths American landscape painters Philadelphia School of Design for Women alumni 20th-century American painters 20th-century American women painters {{US-painter-1880s-stub