January 5 - March 31, 2002 Recent Works by Raymond Howell Art Special Gallery Presented by the Art Department

Golden Gateway, 1980 Serigraph, Collection of the artist

Recent Works by Raymond Howell, an exhibition of approximately 15 works by the Oakland painter and printmaker,includes works in oil, mixed media and silkscreen include street scenes and portraits of
jazz musicians and African American children.

Raymond Howell's paintings are based in realism, with eclectic influences of surrealism and impressionism. In recent years he has experimented with collage, mural painting and printmaking and has created series of works on such subject matter as jazz musicians who were innovators in their art form. An artist whose work focuses on African Americans, Howell describes himself as a role model for artists who have traditionally been reluctant to paint African American subjects.

Howell has been a longtime fixture in the Bay Area art scene. In the mid-1960s he opened Art Associates West, a gallery and art school in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, which operated for nearly a decade. Howell's 1965 painting "The Brown Family" was shown at the opening of the Oakland Museum, and was later purchased for the museum collection. His work has been exhibited widely throughout the United States, and in 1999 Stanford University presented a 40-year retrospective of his paintings.

Recent Works by Raymond Howell was organized by the Oakland Museum of California.

Click here for Press Release on Raymond Howell's recent death.

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