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A LITTLE HISTORY ON THE 58TH (1991-92) DUCK STAMP ARTIST
Nancy Howe graduated from A.B. Studio Art, Middlebury College, Vermont cum laud in 1973. She has showed her works in many prestigious places including: "Great American Artists" Exhibition, The Cincinnati Museum Center from 1996-1997, Artists of America, Denver Rotary Club from 1994-1997, "Art and the Animal" Society of Animal Artists, Washington State Historical Society; Tacoma, WA; Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, VT; Old Algonquin Museum, Ontario, Canada. Witte Museum, San Antonio, TX from 1993-1996. Howe also showed at the National Park Academy of the Arts; "Arts for the Parks" National Tour; (museum exhibitions throughout the US) 1987, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1995 and at Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI; International.
Howe has had many exhibitions including: "Wildlife; the Artist’s View" 1990, 1993, "Birds in Art" 1991, 1993 - 1996, Art in the Embassies, 1990 - 1992: US Embassy residence, Moscow, 1996-97 "Art of the Animal Kingdom", Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, Vermont, 1990-93 Waterfowl Festival, Easton, MD, 1992 Michigan Wildlife Art Festival, Southfield, MI, Vermont Institute of Natural Science, Annual Wildlife Art Exhibition, Woodstock, VT, 1994-96 Stratton Arts Festival, Winhall, Vermont, Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, Vermont, Chaffee Art Center, Rutland, Vermont, Genesee Country Museum Gallery of Sporting Art’ Rochester, New York and Pember Museum, Granville, NY.
Howe has also done illustrations for the book, Working With Your
Woodland, by Mollie Beatie, Charles Thomson and Lynn Levine; 1983, and the magazine Country
Journal, Rod and Reel.
Besides winning the Federal Duck Stamp competition in 1991, she also received an award
from the Society of Animal
Artists, "Art and the Animal". In 1993 Howe received the Wildlife Art News
Award and the Activities Press Printer’s Award. She made the "Top 100" Arts
for the Parks in 1987, 1990, 1992, 1994 and 1995. She was the National Ducks
Unlimited Flyway Artist in 1985 and 1993 and in 1993 won the Sixth Annual Conservation
Stamp and Print for the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation. Howe has won
numerous other awards.
--------------------THE ART--------------------
King Eiders is reproduced on high quality 100 percent acid-free rag paper using fade
resistant inks. The edition was 10,350 regular signed and numbered prints, .... Medallion
editions, and 450 Executive editions which includes the medallion and a pencil
remarque. There was also 1500 Conservation Editions and 1000 Artist Proofs.
The image size is 6-1/2" x 9".
--------------------THE STAMP--------------------
King Eiders…Engraved by the Federal Bureau of Engraving from the original artwork.
Printed in full color. The stamp sold for fifteen dollars. Postal records show
1,423,374 stamps sold. First day of sale was June 30, 1991.