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Artist in the Global Art Registry
Howard Russell Butler
1856–1934 · American
- Born
- 1856 · New York City
- Died
- 1934 · Princeton
7 works in the Collect24 Registry
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Howard Russell Butler was an American painter and founder of the American Fine Arts Society. He persuaded Andrew Carnegie to fund Carnegie Lake, supervised the construction of the Carnegie Mansion, designed an astronomy hall, and painted a solar eclipse for the U.S. Naval Observatory.
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Howard Russell Butler (March 3, 1856 – May 20, 1934) was an American painter and founder of the American Fine Arts Society. Butler persuaded Andrew Carnegie to fund the construction of Carnegie Lake near Princeton University, supervised the construction of the Carnegie Mansion, designed an astronomy hall, and painted a solar eclipse for the U.S. Naval Observatory.
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Selected registered works by Howard Russell Butler
Selected from 7 works by Howard Russell Butler in the Collect24 Registry.
Howard Russell Butler
Heavy Swells, 1918
Oil on canvas mounted on cardboard
35.5 × 25.3 cm
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
C24-119957
Howard Russell Butler
The Seaweed Gatherers, 1886
oil on canvas
118.7 × 244.4 cm
Smithsonian American Art Museum
C24-137850
Howard Russell Butler
Clearing after September Gale--Maine Coast, ca. 1924
oil on canvas
101.4 × 126.7 cm
Smithsonian American Art Museum
C24-135962
Howard Russell Butler
St. Augustine
opaque watercolor and watercolor
43.2 × 27.3 cm
Smithsonian American Art Museum
C24-138708
Howard Russell Butler
Untitled
watercolor
27.3 × 37.8 cm
Smithsonian American Art Museum
C24-136505
Howard Russell Butler
Untitled
opaque watercolor and watercolor
18.4 × 26.4 cm
Smithsonian American Art Museum
C24-136239
Howard Russell Butler
Untitled
opaque watercolor and watercolor
33 × 50.2 cm
Smithsonian American Art Museum
C24-134560
Museums and collections
Where works by Howard Russell Butler are registered
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
Washington, D.C., United States
6 works
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
1 work
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