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Howard, Deborah

 Person

Biography

Deborah Howard is an Associate Professor and Head of Painting Program at the University of Denver. She has been teaching at the University of Denver since 1987. She holds and BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in drawing and printmaking and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in painting and printmaking.

Found in 52 Collections and/or Records:

Canvas, 2013

 Item — Object B398.01.0033: Series B398.01 [Barcode: U186023292278]
Identifier: B398.01.0033.00001
Abstract

Multi-piece artwork consisting of an encaustic painting on canvas, pair of shoes and wood shelf for shoes. Canvas has floral patterned wallpaper with large red flowers, covered with wax. Canvas is surrounded by ash wood frame. Wax makes surface 3-dimensional.

Dates: 2013

Canvas, 2007

 Item — Object B398.01.00026.00001: Series B398.01 [Barcode: U186023282833]
Identifier: B398.01.00026.00001
Abstract

Multi-piece artwork consisting of an encaustic painting on canvas, pair of shoes and wood shelf for shoes.

Canvas has black and white image of women sorting through a room strewn with papers; image is of Nuremberg files being organized. Next to the image are multiple lines of Hebrew script carved into the waxed surface. Canvas is surrounded by ash wood frame. Wax makes surface 3-dimensional.

Dates: 2007

"Cellar of Hope", circa 2008

 Item
Identifier: B398.01.00028
Abstract

Encaustic painting on canvas in reds, oranges, golds, blues and purples surrounded by an ash wood frame. Canvas has image of Susan Bendor, image is a photocopy of Deborah Howard’s print, B398.01.00016. Wax makes surface 3-dimensional and has mold of a lightbulb that hangs over Susan. Designs behind wax surface look like wallpaper with a curtain across the top.

Dates: circa 2008

Container 35, 2008

 File — Drawer B398.03.0035: Series B398.03 [Barcode: U186023282906]
Identifier: B398.03.0035
Abstract

Two foam core boards used with exhibition. One is of the cover of the portrait booklet and the other shows the four portraits at Yad Vashem and a photo of the building.

Dates: 2008

David Shichor, 2006

 Item — Object B398.01.00020: Series B398.01 [Barcode: U186023282540]
Identifier: B398.01.00020
Abstract

Framed drawing of David Schichor by artist Deborah Howard. Drawing is in black and white, he wears a patterned collared shirt and glasses. David Schichor is looking towards the viewer.

Dates: 2006

Deborah Howard's Holocaust Portraits and Papers

 Collection
Identifier: B398
Abstract Deborah Howard is an Associate Professor and Head of Painting Program at the University of Denver. After a discussion on racial stereotypes and aging in a Figure Painting course Howard was teaching, she began to develop her Portraits of Child Holocaust Survivors project and settled on drawing as the media for the project. Howard has drawn and painted twenty-five people who escaped, hid or survived concentration camps during the Jewish Holocaust of WWII. Four portraits from the project are...
Dates: 1949-2019

Don Altman, 2003

 Item — Object B398.01.00004: Series B398.01 [Barcode: U186023282320]
Identifier: B398.01.00004
Abstract

Framed drawing of Don Altman by artist Deborah Howard. Drawing is largely black and white with bits of red on the rim of his glasses. Don Altman is looking slightly over his right shoulder towards the viewer.

Dates: 2003

Esther Wasserman, 2003

 Item — Object B398.01.00005: Series B398.01 [Barcode: U186023282338]
Identifier: B398.01.00005
Abstract

Framed drawing of Esther Wasserman by artist Deborah Howard. Drawing is black and white with red and orange highlights in her hair. Esther Wasserman is turned slightly to the left and looking towards the viewer.

Dates: 2003

Exhibit Ephemera: Anderson Academic Commons, 2019

 File
Identifier: B398.03.0025.0006
Abstract

Exhibit planning design sketch (done by Deborah Howard) and papers.

Dates: 2019

Exhibit Ephemera: Hendrix College in Conway Arkansas, 2009

 File
Identifier: B398.03.0025.0002
Abstract

Programs and advertising posters for when "Child Survivors of the Holocaust" was on exhibit in 2009 at Hendrix College.

Dates: 2009

Additional filters:

Type
Archival Object 51
Collection 1
 
Subject
Holocaust survivors 30
Portraits 28
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 27
Jewish children in the Holocaust 26
Drawings (Visual works) 23