133 Frank Howell "Distant Hand" 28.5"x32.5"; Offset Lithograph, Artists Proof, Hand signed by artist****; Professionally Museum quality Matte & Framed with UV Resistant Glass and acid free materials. Frank Howell(1937-1997)Artist Frank Howell was born in Sioux City, Iowa, in 1937. He began drawing when he was a young child and painted for over thirty years until his death on November 26th, 1997. Countless collectors and dealers mourned his passing. Whether he painted an Indian face or a landscape, his lyrical interpretations employ a visual representation of the wind as it sweeps across time -past, present, and future. Frank Howell was a self-taught artist. Howell viewed these images as universal symbols, a kind of visual mythology that can be viewed in all of his work.He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Northern Iowa, did graduate work at the University of Northern Iowa and at the University of Iowa, and studied at the Chicago Art Institute. In addition to being an artist and businessman, his background included service in the Marine Corps and teaching art on both the high school and college levels. In his later years, Frank resided in Santa Fe. Frank Howell was extremely prolific in his artwork, , working with pen, pencil, oils, watercolors, acrylics, sculpture, lithographs, mono-types, giclee prints, and serigraphs. Frank was a Master Lithographer, creating original work on the lithograph stone for short run lithographs, often coloring and pulling the entire edition himself. His original hand pulled lithographs are the most sought after media by collectors that can?t afford his original paintings or drawings. As an extraordinarily skilled artist, Frank Howell widely exhibited at museums and galleries throughout the United States, as well as Mexico. His work is included in numerous private and corporate collections all over the world. He has also been the subject of many magazine and newspaper articles, television profiles, and documentaries.Also a poet and writer, Howell wrote and illustrated many books, including Gifts of the Crow Messengers, Frank Howell - Monotypes, Frank Howell -Lithographs, and illustrated Many Winters, Past Winters Who Speaks for Wolf, and Stories of the Dream-walkers. Frank Howell?s philosophy of art is probably best expressed in the forward he wrote for his last book, The Art of Frank Howell, which was published in October of 1997, shortly before his death.A well-known Southwest painter, print-maker and gallery owner, he did finely rendered, etching like portraits of time-worn Native Americans. His goal was to depict the dignity of his subjects. He was born in Sioux City Iowa and raised in a small home overlooking the Missouri River. He studied art and writing at the University of Northern Iowa and taught high school in Iowa. In the late 1960s, he moved to Colorado and opened Breckenridge Galleries. After living briefly in Taos and Colorado, he opened the Howell Gallery in Santa Fe. He was an accomplished photographer, and writer of an art computer program.