Felicie Waldo Howell

American (1897-1968)

Born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1897, painter Felicie Waldo Howell studied at the Corcoran School of Art with E.C. Messer and at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women under Henry Snell. Howell later taught at the New York School of Fine and Applied Art.

Howell belonged to the National Academy of Design, National Arts Club, New York Watercolor Club, Society of Painters of New York and Painters and Sculptors Gallery Association and Concord Art Association. Howell received prizes for her work at exhibitions of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, Concord Art Association, National Academy of Design, Society of Washington, D.C. Artists, Washington, D.C. Watercolor Club and Art Institute of Chicago, where she exhibited in nineteen annual exhibitions.

Howell’s work is held in collections of the National Gallery, Smithsonian Institution and Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and at the National Arts Club and Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.