YOUNG INDIAN MOTHER AND CHILD. 23” X 34”, WATERCOLOR

Marian Howard has been a full time artist for over 42 years. She presently makes her home in Morristown, New Jersey, but is a native of Savannah, Georgia. She has exhibited in many “One Woman” shows as well as group exhibitions. Her paintings reflect floral birds, African motifs or people of color as well as mixed media works and landscaping. She enjoys painting a wide variety of subjects, always searching for ways to grow. The original “Young Indian Mother and Child” is presently part of a permanent collection at Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn, N.Y. “Young Indian Girl” is in the permanent collection of AT&T of New Jersey.

Ms. Howard expresses her love of humanity and nature and truly paints from her soul. Her paintings are in numerous private collections in countries such as Russia, Africa, Spain and throughout the United States. Her work also graces the walls of City Halls (Apopka, Fl. most recently), colleges and business offices. (Source)

Many of her paintings are drawn from childhood memories, and feature young and old generations alike. The lone subject of “Young Girl In Field” seems to exude an awakening and sensuality, as she stands smiling in a field with her white dress pulled down over one shoulder, against the backdrop of a virginal blue sky. In her painting simply entitled “Time,” an old woman looks off into the distance, her compelling, wizened face a testament to her long life’s journey.

Howard’s paintings also depict African subjects, such as the arresting “Massai Warriors” and the beautiful “African Mother and Child,” which provide striking glimpses into a distant, ostensibly ancient world.

It is no surprise that Howard paints her down-to-earth subjects with earthy tones and colors, as she strives to emulate her favorite artists, which include American masters Winslow Homer and Andrew Wyeth.

“I absolutely love their style, and the eloquence of their pieces!” she said. “Wyeth’s are a little bit more detailed, more illustrative and I love the colors he used. Those are the colors that I am so drawn to—so earthy—and the tones really speak to me.

So those are the same tones that I always used in my pieces as well.” (Source)

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