Watercolor on paper, signed and dated lower left, retaining artist's label to verso (#3338), matted and framed under glass.

Sheet size 17 1/2 x 23 1/2 in.; Frame dimensions 26 1/4 x 32 1/4 in.

Purchased by the consignor's mother directly from the artist in 1970.

Born in Wilmington, North Carolina, Howell received his early artistic training from an eccentric British transplant, Elisabeth Chant. He went on to seek further training during his travels to artist colonies in the Northeast, New York, and Paris. Through these travels, Howell learned to paint what he knew and loved - life along the Cape Fear.

Some minor accretions between mat board and glass; not examined out of the frame.