Edgar Allan Howes FRBS, NRD

Works

Dates are usually the year a work was exhibited so may differ from date of production.
New entries have been made each time a work was exhibited. Click here for more information.

Torso
1927 (Presumed)

An allegory
1928 (Circa)

Female torso
1928

Eve
1931 (Circa)

Madonna and Child
1933

Torso
1933

Fish
1935 (Circa)

Decoration
1935

Lead Figure for Fountain
1937 (Circa)

Decorative Panel in Glass
1937 (Circa)

Fountain Figure
1938

Garden Figure
1938

Madonna
1938

Dancing figure
1939

Mother and child
1939

The new age
1945

Dawn
1946

Locations

View all on map 

Address 4 Clarence Road Kew Gardens Richmond | View on map
1911 (Circa) - 1918 (Circa)
In 1911 living at this address with his parents

Address Hillside King's Lane Elmdon | View on map
1969
Living at this address when he died.

Studio located at Cumberland Studio Forest Road London SW | View on map
1922 (Presumed) - 1927 (Presumed)

Studio located at The Studio, 19 St Peter's Square London W6 | View on map
1935 (Presumed) - 1947 (Presumed)

Studio located in The Studio, 35 St Peter's Square Hammersmith London | View on map
1928 - 1945

Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events

Exhibited at City of Manchester Art Gallery, Exhibition of the Work of Living British Artists, 1927
'Torso'

Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Second, 1928
'Female torso'

Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Thirteenth, 1939
Multiple works

Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Nineteenth, 1945
'The new age'

Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Twentieth, 1946
'Dawn'

Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Eighty-Second Annual Exhibition, 1943
'Dawn'

Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1935
Multiple works

Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1933
'Madonna and Child'

Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1937
'Decorative Panel in Glass'

Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1926
'An allegory'

Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1931
'Eve'

Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1922 - 1969
Exhibited 41 times (31 times to 1951), showing either one or two works per year.

Exhibited at Palace of Arts Empire Exhibition Scotland, 1938
1938

Officer for British Food Fair, 1950
1950
Assisted with the organisation of the exhibition.

Won prize Landseer Scholarships (Royal Academy of Arts), 1884-1950
1912
Two years; name given as Allen E. Howes

Institutional and Business Connections

Associate member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1923 - 1938 (Presumed)
Became fellow in 1938.

Fellow of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1938 - 1952 (Presumed)
Proposed as honorary member in 1953.

Honorary treasurer of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1943

Member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1921 - 1964

Member of Art Workers Guild
1 April 1938
Resigned at unknown date.

Member of The Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society
1938 (Presumed)

Member of council Royal Society of British Sculptors
1929 - 1947
Served as a member of the Council from 1924 to 1934, and again from 1941

Studied at Royal Academy Schools
1912 (Presumed) - 1914 (Presumed)
Awarded a £5 prize and silver medal for model from the Antique, a first prize of £15 for a set of three models of figures from the life, and a two year Landseer Scholarship for sculpture, in 1912. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1912', (1914), pp. 32-33. In 1913, Howes won a first prize silver medal for two models of a bust from the life. See 'Annual Report, 1913', (1915), p. 30. The following year he won a first prize of £30 and a silver medal for a model of a design.

Unsuccessful in ballot for election to Royal Academy of Arts
Despite nominations in 1927, 1935, 1943 and 1951.

Personal and Professional Connections

Collaborated with Eric Henri Kennington
1928 (Circa)
According to an article in 'The Times' of 10 July 1928 Howes contributed the decorative carvings on the Soissons Memorial, Aisne, France, unveiled 22 July 1928

Nominated by William Ernest Reynolds-Stephens
1921 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors

Nominated by William Silver Frith
1921 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors

Nominated by Henry Poole
1 November 1927
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by George Henry
1 November 1927
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Alfred Turner
1 November 1927 - March 1935
Two nominations for RA, in 1927 and 1935, both unsuccessful.

Nominated by William McMillan
1 November 1927 - March 1935
Two nomniations for RA, in 1927 and 1935, both unsuccessful.

Nominated by Charles Leonard Hartwell
1 November 1927
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by William Reid Dick
1 November 1927 - March 1943
Two nominations for Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA], in 1927 and 1943, both unsuccessful.

Nominated by Samuel John Lamorna Birch
March 1935
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by William Russell Flint
March 1935
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Henry Raeburn Macbeth-Raeburn
March 1935
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Terrick Williams
March 1935
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Walter Westley Russell
March 1935
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Sydney Lee
March 1935
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by George James Frampton
March 1943
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA]; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Gilbert Ledward
March 1943 - February 1951
Two nominations for Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA], in 1943 and 1951, both unsuccessful.

Nominator of Edgar Silver Frith
1932 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors

Nominator of (Henry) Eric John Doudney
1935
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors

Nominator of Michael Clark
1949
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors

Descriptions of Practice

Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Art Student - Sculptor' and working at a 'Sculptor's studio and School'

Sources

Aberdeen Artists' Society. Nineteenth Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1926
November 1926
p. 83

Aberdeen Artists' Society. Twenty-first Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1931
November 1931
P. 61

Annual Report from the Council of The Royal Academy to the General Assembly of Academicians for the Year 1912, 1914 Royal Academy Annual Reports
1914
pp. 32-33.

Annual Report from the Council of The Royal Academy to the General Assembly of Academicians for the Year 1913, 1915 Royal Academy Annual Reports
1915
p. 30.

Annual Report from the Council of The Royal Academy to the General Assembly of Academicians for the Year 1914, 1915 Royal Academy Annual Reports
1915
p. 36.

Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Craft Members at the date of the Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition at the Royal Academy, November and December 1938
1938
p.2.

Beauty's Awakening: The Centenary Exhibition of the Art Workers Guild (Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery and Museum, Brighton), 1984
1984
p.56.

Catalogue of the Exhibition of the Work of Living British Artists
1927
Cat. No. 389, pp. 36, 41

Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2011
RG14PN3593 RG78PN135 RD41 SD1 ED13 SN339

England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2007
2007
Name: Edgar Allan Howes Birth Date: 11 Jan 1887 Date of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec 1969 Age at Death: 82 Registration district: Cambridge Inferred County: Cambridgeshire Volume: 4a Page: 786

England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
2006
Name: Edgar Allan Howes Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1888 Registration district: Mitford Inferred County: Norfolk Volume: 4b Page: 310

Find a Will
2014
Name: Howes, Edgar Allan Death: 11 December 1969 Probate: 2 February 1970 Page: 560

Palace of Arts Empire Exhibition Scotland 1938 The Fine Art Section of the Empire Exhibition
1938

Royal Academy Exhibitors 1905-70: A Dictionary of Artists and their Work in the Summer Exhibitions of the Royal Academy of Arts Vol. IV Hart-Lawl
1979
pp. 87-8

Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, 1927-1938
1938
p.143.

Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, c.1939-c.1961
1961 (Circa)
p.31.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council and Accounts For the Year ending 21 December 1921. To be Presented at the Eighteenth Ordinary General Meeting, 1921
1921
p. 5

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1929, to be Presented at the Twenty-Sixth Ordinary General Meeting, 1930
March 1930
p. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1930, to be Presented at the Twenty-Seventh Ordinary General Meeting, 1931
March 1931
p. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1931, to be Presented at the Twenty-Eighth Ordinary General Meeting, 1932
March 1932
p. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1932, to be Presented at the Twenty-Ninth Ordinary General Meeting, 1933
March 1933
p. 2 and p. 4.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1933, to be Presented at the Thirteenth Ordinary General Meeting, 1934
March 1934
p. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1934, to be Presented at the Thirty-First Ordinary General Meeting, 1935
March 1935
p. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of the Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1941, to be Presented at the Thirty-Eight Ordinary General Meeting, 1942
March 1942
p. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of the Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1942, to be Presented at the Thirty-Ninth Ordinary General Meeting, 1943
March 1943
p. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of the Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1943, to be Presented at the Fortieth Ordinary General Meeting, 1944
March 1944
p. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of the Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1945, to be Presented at the Forty-Second Ordinary General Meeting, 1946
March 1946
p. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of the Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1946, to be Presented at the Forty-Third Ordinary General Meeting, 1947
March 1947
p. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of the Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1947, to be Presented at the Forty-Fourth Ordinary General Meeting, 1948
March 1948
p. 2.

The Art of Carved Sculpture: Western Europe, America and Japan
1931
p. 113-4 (illustration of a 'Torso' in stone, on p. 114)

The fifty-fifth annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1939
1939
p.19.

The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1861-1989. Volume 2, E-K. A Dictionary of Exhibitors at the Annual Exhibitions of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1991 The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1861-1989
1991
p. 258

The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Catalogue, 1943
1943
p. 19

The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibitors 1826-1990: A dictionary of artists and their work in the Annual Exhibitions of the Royal Scottish Academy. Volume 2, E-K
1991
p. 318

The sixty-second annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1946
1946
p.32.

The sixty-third annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1947
1947
p.34.

The Times Digital Archive 1785-1985
2008
The Times, Tuesday, Jul 10, 1928; pg. 15; Issue 44941; col D British Memorial To Missing. Aisne-Marne Battles Of 1918. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.). Category: News AND The Times, Thursday, Mar 30, 1944; pg. 6; Issue 49818; col E News in Brief Category: News in Brief