Mending Nets

Artist Claude Flynn Howell American, 1915–1997

Date1947

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions30 x 42 in. (76.2 x 106.7 cm)
Frame: 31 3/4 x 43 3/4 in. (80.6 x 111.1 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest)

Object numberG.47.1.1

On View

Not on view

ProvenanceProbably created Wilmington, NC, 1947; collection of the artist; sold to NCMA, 1947.
Published ReferencesNorth Carolina Artists' Eleventh Annual Exhibition (brochure) (Raleigh: North Carolina State Arts Society, 1947), no. 24.

Acquisitions from North Carolina Annuals, 1946-1966 (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1967), cat. no. 21, illus. (b-w).

Claude Howell: A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1975), cat. no 39, illus. (b-w).

"Outgoing Loans to Temporary Exhibitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 13, no. 3 (1976), listed 59.

Jonathan Stuhlman and Martha R. Severens, ed., Southern/Modern: Rediscovering Southern Art from the First Half of the Twentieth Century (exhibition catalogue) (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2023), 70, fig. 57 (illus. color).Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, State Art Gallery, State Library Building, "North Carolina Artists' Eleventh Annual Exhibition," December 4, 1947-January 4, 1948, no. 24.

Bellhaven, NC, Library, March, 1958.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Acquisitions from N.C. Annuals," 1967, cat. no. 21, illus.

Raleigh,NC, Meredith College, "Claude Howell," September 22-October 22, 1972.

Wilmington, NC, St. John's Gallery, "Claude Howell Retrospective: 1939-1973," October 1973.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Claude Howell: A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings," January 19-February 16, 1975; Winston-Salem, NC, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, March 7-March 28, 1975; Charlotte, NC, Mint Museum of Art, April 6-May 4, 1975, cat. no. 11, illus. (b-w).

Wilmington, NC, St. John's Museum of Art, "Claude Howell: Carolina Interpreter," March 17-June 4, 1995.

Athens, GA, Georgia Museum of Art, "Southern/Modern," June 17–December 10, 2023; Nashville, TN, Frist Art Museum, January 25–April 21, 2024; Memphis, TN, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, July 14–September 29, 2024; Charlotte, NC, The Mint Museum, October 26, 2024–February 2, 2025. Object Rights Statement

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