Felicie Howell

Felicie Howell studied in Washington at the Corcoran Art School and at the Women’s School of Design in Philadelphia, and later taught in New York, where she lived since 1917 at the School of Fine and Applied Art and Design and at the Summer School in Gloucester. She was Honolulu-born and spent much of her childhood in Athina, sketching and painting. Her first husband George Mixter (1876-1947) was an engineer and avid sailor. Howell was a painter of oil and watercolor coastal landscapes, shore scenes, impressionistic nature figures, interiors, and marine scenes, such as a series of displays from the America’s Cup regatta in 1937. Her favorite subjects were landscape paintings of the New England coasts. Howell was praised for her rich palette and ability to convincingly capture movement. In her later years, she resided in Philadelphia.

St. David’s Bermuda Sail Boat Race may be the submitted image Start of the Bermuda Race. The Bermuda Race is an ocean sailing contest from Newport, Rhode Island to Hamilton in Bermuda, which has been held every two years since 1906. Like Reynolds Beal and Charles Paul Gruppé, Howell probably drew on the motif of the Fisherman’s Race held off Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the 1920s for her work International Fishermen’s Race, Gloucester.