1970s Raymond Howell Large Chromolithograph, Carousel

Description

Artist: Raymond Howell – American (1927- 2002 )
Title: Carousel
Year: 1979
Medium: Chromolithograph
Image size: 35.5 x 47.75
Framed … more Artist: Raymond Howell – American (1927- 2002 )
Title: Carousel
Year: 1979
Medium: Chromolithograph
Image size: 35.5 x 47.75
Framed size: 40.25 x 52.75 inches
Signature: Signed, dated lower right
Edition size: 200 plus proofs. This One: A/P (artist proof) 31/50
Condition: Good
Frame: Framed in metal frame and Plexiglas. Frame in good condition

This large chromolithograph is by the well-known African American artist Raymond Howell (1927-2002). It is in good condition, with some light matburn at the matline and some light creases in the upper margin. Please see photos.


Raymond Howell was born in Oakland, California in 1927. A painter, printmaker, collage artist, and muralist, Howell was self taught. He often spoke of his experience as an African American child raised in the foster care system as a major influence on his career, both as an artist and an advocate and teacher for arts programs for minority children. By the late 1950s Howell was a self-supporting artist who had exhibited in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, and Provincetown. He became known for his images of jazz musicians, African American culture, and children at play. In the 1960s he opened Art Associates West gallery and art school in San Francisco, which remained a fixture for nearly a decade. In 1965 he debuted his painting, "The Brown Family", at the opening of the Oakland Museum, which later purchased the work for its permanent collection. In 1999, Stanford University showed a retrospective of Mr. Howell's work, which included portraits of Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald and an enormous painting of the Stanford women's basketball teams that won national championships in 1990 and '92. It hangs in the cafe of the school's Arrillaga Family Sports Center. Howell is widely credited with encouraging and promoting Black art and imagery when there was little interest from the American art world. He died on January 6, 2002, the same day the Oakland Museum opened an exhibition of his recent works. less