Description:
On verso, the canvas stretcher it reads an “American painter born in White Plains NY in 1885”, “In the Woods Hewitt”. On Verso of the canvas it reads John Newton Hewitt. On verso, the frame reads Old Queens Gallery in the castle 433 River Rd Highland Park NJ 08904.“In the Woods”, a late fall/early spring time wood scene with trees and two deer’s in the picture.
biography: Illustrator and landscape painter John Newton Howitt (1885-1958) was born in White Plains, New York. His is the classic case of an artist torn between the divergent worlds of commercial and fine art and between what he considered the higher and lower levels of commercial illustration. After a successful career in major magazine illustration, he was forced by the Depression to paint for the pulp magazines, which activity he disliked intensely. He would return, at the beginning of World War II, to magazines such as Colliers and Liberty, and to his landscape painting, but, ironically, it is his illustrations of the pulps for which he is most remembered.

Material:
Oil on Canvas

Maker/Artist:
John Newton Hewitt

Date:
20th Century

Provenance:
n/a

Size of Artwork:
H. 14 x W. 14

Weight (LBS)
2.3

Condition:
not lined no craquelure Some very small spotting in the painting.