Claude Howell (NC, 1915-1997), Loading Nets, Ocracoke

Serigraph in colors, 1986, pencil signed, dated, titled, and numbered 196/300 lower margin, matted and framed.

Image size 19 1/2 x 24 in.; Frame dimensions 27 1/2 x 32 in.

Private Collection, Durham, North Carolina

Among the most famous and highly collected artists from North Carolina, Claude Howell is often referred to as “The Dean of North Carolina Painters.” He was born in Wilmington, North Carolina and received his early artistic training from an eccentric British transplant, Elisabeth Chant. He went on to seek further training during his travels throughout the Northeastern United States and Paris, but North Carolina always lured him home to paint what he knew and loved best – life along the North Carolina coast.

Howell’s paintings, drawings, and prints are present in major North Carolina collections and nationally recognized collections, including the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh; the Mint Museum, Charlotte; the Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Howell was the first North Carolina artist to show work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1940.

Good estate condition and a bright impression; slight mat burn to the sheet, barely visible spotting to the margins, and color bleed along the impression edge; not examined out of frame.