St Thomas 82
- School of Art and Design Permanent Collection
- Bold salmon - colored church; print 74/300; silver frame, white mat board. A bold salmon colored church overlays a teal background with grey windows that match the pavement. There’s another grey house in the background being overlapped which leads to the assumption the church is in a populous area.
- Importance of work: Despite being a church, the work still shows Howell’s passion for creating art near the coast.
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Claude Howell
American 1915-1997
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Claude Howell
Wilmington native Claude Howell’s identity as an artist is intertwined with the North Carolina coast. Howell’s most frequent subjects include fishermen, docks and seascapes. Using bright, flat colors, the artist created vibrant portraits of life along the coast. Ocracoke Harbor exemplifies this style, with Howell using a marine palette to cut geometric swaths of color across the canvas. As a passionate artist and educator, Howell contributed to the cultural vitality of his community and was asked to start an art department at Wilmington College (now UNC-Wilmington), where he taught from 1960 to 1981.
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- Serigraph
- 74/300
- On Loan