Loretta Hines Howard by Robert Henri (1865–1929)

Loretta Hines Howard (1904 — April 2, 1982) was an American artist and collector.[1][2][3] Howard was a collector of Neapolitan crèche figures from the 18th-century. In 1957, Howard began what would become a forty-year tradition of decorating the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Christmas tree with items from her créche collection, integrating the Roman Catholic practice of creating nativity scenes with the European protestant tradition of tree decoration.[4] In the early 1960s, she donated her collection to the museum.[5][6]

Howard's work as a painter is included in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art.[1] Her papers, 1926–1941, are held by the Smithsonian.[7]

Her funeral was held at St. Ignatius Loyola Roman Catholic Church, Manhattan before burial in Valley, Wyoming.[2][3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Loretta Howard". www.whitney.org. Archived from the original on 2019-04-08. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  2. 1 2 "Loretta Hines Howard, Artist". The New York Times. 3 April 1982. Archived from the original on 8 April 2019. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
  3. 1 2 Robert Henri; Marian Wardle; Sarah Burns; Brigham Young University; Museum of Art (2005). American Women Modernists: The Legacy of Robert Henri, 1910-1945. Rutgers University Press. pp. 204–. ISBN 978-0-8135-3684-2.
  4. ↑ Derek H. Davis (18 November 2010). The Oxford Handbook of Church and State in the United States. Oxford University Press. pp. 338–. ISBN 978-0-19-020878-3.
  5. ↑ New Yorker (12 October 2004). Christmas at the New Yorker: Stories, Poems, Humor, and Art. Random House Publishing Group. pp. 240–. ISBN 978-1-4000-6341-3.
  6. ↑ Dunlap, David W. (23 December 2014). "Family Protests After Its Tradition of Installing Crèche at the Met Is Halted". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 8 April 2019. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
  7. ↑ "Loretta Hines Howard papers, 1926-1941". www.aaa.si.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-06-14. Retrieved 2019-04-09.
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