The following is a Rare Stephen Colgate Howard Seascape "Chatham Sea on Cabin / On board Madeina at Chatham, Massachusetts" Acrylic Painting that is in overall good condition but show wear of age. It is signed on the bottom right corner and on the back as well as the back of the mat. Measures 15" Inches Tall by 19" Inches Wide. Painting itself is 10 7/8" Inches Tall by 15" Inches Wide. Please take a look at the photographs for more details as well as our store for more pieces of the artist.

Stephen Colgate Howard, 98, an artist, of Newcastle, died at his home on Aug. 12. He was born July 20, 1912 in his grandfather William Colgate’s house in Flushing, N.Y. Steve attended the Pomfret School in Connecticut for six years, graduating in the class of 1931. His interest in art began at Pomfret, and he later studied at the National Academy of Art in New York City. After he married Ruth Hougham in 1938, they spent a year and a half touring Europe, Steve painting all the while. They then settled in the Hamburg Cove section of Lyme, Conn., where he built a house on a five-acre piece of land. He later enjoyed telling people that the house had a cost a whopping $5000. Steve eventually bought a Bahamian sloop and reconfigured her to accommodate four people. He and Ruth and their daughters Stephanie and Roberta sailed to the Bahamas where they spent two winters aboard Madeira.

During WWII, Steve was stationed with the US Army in Italy, and supervised a carpentry crew of Italian prisoners of war, sketching and painting whenever he could. Once the war was over, he returned to Connecticut and concentrated on his painting, which was a lifelong occupation. Working in oil and acrylic, he was noted for his bold landscapes of coastal Maine. During his long career, his work was exhibited throughout Maine and the East Coast, beginning with a one-man show at the National Academy of Art in New York when he was 23. His work was later shown in galleries and museums including the Farnsworth, Portland Museum of Art, Bowdoin College, Maine Art Gallery, Pemaquid Gallery and several times at the University of Maine. His artwork is scattered all over the United States, as well as England, Mexico and Saudi Arabia. Steve also taught painting from his Newcastle studio, and his students almost always became his friends. He was able to work right through this winter, when he finished his last paintings for his three grandchildren.