Edward Townsend Howes

Howes began his career as a watercolor artist.^[5] His best-known works depict life in Paris.^[2] He used a "broken-color technique, layering translucent washes" and often created asymmetrical compositions in the Impressionist style.^[2] Eight of his artworks are in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.^[1]

Later, Howe specialized in making architectural models.^[5][4] He created a scale model of the 1939 New York World's Fair.^[4] He also taught model-making to unemployed architects, artists, and draftsment as part of a Works Progress Administration program.^[4]

He became a licensed architect in New York City, New York state, and Connecticut.^[5] He designed mansions in Fairfield County, Connecticut and Long Island, New York especially in the Westbury and Shippan.^[5][3][4] He retired in 1949.^[3]

Howes married Elsie Waterbury Milligan of Elizabeth, New Jersey on June 1, 1912.^[4][11] They had a daughter, Elizabeth McKie Howes, and a son, Daniel H. Howes.^[5][12]

He was a member of St. John's Episcopal Church.^[4] He was the co-founder of the Digressionists Club in New York City for artists and architects.^[4] He was also a charter member of the Society of Architects and Artists.^[5]

Later in his life, Howes lived at 167 Fairview Avenue in the Shippan Point neighborhood of Stamford, Connecticut.^[5] Howes died on May 10, 1964, while in Stamford Hospital in Stamford at the age of 87 years.^[1][5] He was buried in Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York.^[4]