Birth place:  Buffalo, NY

Death place: Short Hills, NJ?

Addresses: Buffalo, 1903-07; NYC, 1908-25; Short Hills, NJ

Profession: Painter, teacher

Studied: Buffalo ASL, with Bridgman; ASL, New York, with Mowbray; Académie Julian with Jean-Paul Laurens, in Paris; Italy; with Whistler

Exhibited: Albright Art Gal., 1893 (prize); Paris Salon, 1899 (prize); Am. AA., Paris, 1900 (first Wanamaker Prize); Pan-Am. Expo, 1901 (prize); PAFA, 1902-25 (prize 1924); AIC; Buffalo SA, 1904 (prize); St. Louis Expo, 1904 (prize); Corcoran Gal, 1907-16; AWCS, 1909 (prize); Brooklyn AA, 1912; Peabody Inst., 1921 (prize); Newport AA, 1935 (prize); NAD; All. A. Am.; N.Y. Soc. P.;Nat. Art Comp., NYC 1925 (gold); Ogunquit Art Center, 1930; Soc. for Sanity in Art, Chicago, 1941; Lotos Club; SC; NAC. .

Member: ANA, 1910; ANA, 1929; NA; NYWCC; AWCS; SC, 1908; Paris AAA; Lotos Club; NAC; Allied AA; Buffalo SA; Montclair AM.

Work: Albright Art Gal.; Brooklyn Inst. Art & Science; Milwaukee Art Soc.; Seymour (IN) AL; Lotos Club; NAG; Ft. Worth Mus. of Art; Montclair Art Mus.; NAD, Randolph-Macon Women's College; Vanderpoel Coll.; Wesleyan College; Rochelle Public Library; Parthenon Art Gal., Nashville, TN.

Comments: He studied and traveled abroad for five years, returning in 1903. Positions: instructor, portrait and still life painting, ASL of Buffalo, 1903-07; ASL, NYC, 1908-17; Carnegie Inst., 1920. He was married to painter Ilka Howells.

Sources: WW47; WW53; Krane, The Wayward Muse, 188; Falk, Exhibition Record Series; 300 Years of American Art, 652.

Biography courtesy of Who Was Who in American Art, the reference book on the cultural life in the United States.