Malcolm Ian Howie | |
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Born | [1]
Creswick, Victoria,
[1] Australia | 26 March 1900
Died | 21 January 1936[1]
Frankston, Victoria,
[2] Australia | (aged 35)
Malcolm Ian Howie (1900–1936) was an Australian self-taught commercial and botanical watercolour artist and Methodist local preacher. [3]
From the age of 16, Howie was unable to walk due to Spinal muscular atrophy. [2] [4] He was often accompanied on his preaching engagements by the botanist James Hamlyn Willis, who had married Malcolm's sister, Mavis Eileen Howie. [3] An accomplished debater, he wrote "verse and short plays," and entered the Royal South Street Society literary competition in 1933, winning second place. [1]
By 1926 Howie was employed as a commercial painter, supplying artwork featuring birds and wildflowers, for calendars and suedework. [1] By 1931, James Hamlyn Willis and Ethel McLennan had encouraged Howie to expand his repertoire to include fungi, and his paintings increasingly appeared in scientific publications. [1] [5] Approximately 200 watercolours of fungi, produced between 1931 and 1935, have survived. [6] Paintings by Howie are held in the State Botanical Collection of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. [4] A further 84 paintings are held by the University of Melbourne Herbarium. [7] [8] [2]
Howie's watercolour illustrations of fungi and ferns were published in the following works:
His work has been posthumously exhibited, particularly in Melbourne. Exhibitions include:
Howie has also been cited as an inspiration for The Red Room Company poet Bonny Cassidy. [19]
He accompanied Malcolm and his sister Mavis Eileen Howie to preaching engagements and on wildflower collecting excursions.
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The exhibition comprised principally original works of art, specimens, and other objects from the State Botanical Collection, plus some material borrowed from private individuals. The exhibition toured to: Horsham Regional Art Gallery (9 January-4 March 2007); McClelland Gallery and the Australian Garden, Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne (7 April-11 June 2007); Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery (20 August-7 October 2007); Gippsland Art Gallery (13 October-11 November 2007); Domain House, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne (24 November-17 December 2007); National Museum of Australia, Canberra (13 March-9 June 2008); Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston (16 August-16 November 2008); Gordon Gallery, Geelong (25 February-8 April 2009); Museum of Economic Botany, Adelaide Botanic Garden (5 June-30 September 2009).
Catalog of an exhibition held at Domain House, Dallas Brooks Drive, South Yarra, from 18 July to 7 August 2011
The watercolours, also from the Herbarium, were produced by gifted commercial and natural history artist, Malcolm Howie (1900–1936).
The exhibition also features the beautiful fungi watercolours by Malcolm Howie and botanical models from our collection.
Twenty watercolours from the collection at the University of Melbourne Herbarium are currently on show in Still Life at the Buxton Contemporary in Southbank.
I decided that Howie's life and images would feature in my poem as perhaps a narrative or ekphrastic allusion.
Malcolm Ian Howie | |
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Born | [1]
Creswick, Victoria,
[1] Australia | 26 March 1900
Died | 21 January 1936[1]
Frankston, Victoria,
[2] Australia | (aged 35)
Malcolm Ian Howie (1900–1936) was an Australian self-taught commercial and botanical watercolour artist and Methodist local preacher. [3]
From the age of 16, Howie was unable to walk due to Spinal muscular atrophy. [2] [4] He was often accompanied on his preaching engagements by the botanist James Hamlyn Willis, who had married Malcolm's sister, Mavis Eileen Howie. [3] An accomplished debater, he wrote "verse and short plays," and entered the Royal South Street Society literary competition in 1933, winning second place. [1]
By 1926 Howie was employed as a commercial painter, supplying artwork featuring birds and wildflowers, for calendars and suedework. [1] By 1931, James Hamlyn Willis and Ethel McLennan had encouraged Howie to expand his repertoire to include fungi, and his paintings increasingly appeared in scientific publications. [1] [5] Approximately 200 watercolours of fungi, produced between 1931 and 1935, have survived. [6] Paintings by Howie are held in the State Botanical Collection of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. [4] A further 84 paintings are held by the University of Melbourne Herbarium. [7] [8] [2]
Howie's watercolour illustrations of fungi and ferns were published in the following works:
His work has been posthumously exhibited, particularly in Melbourne. Exhibitions include:
Howie has also been cited as an inspiration for The Red Room Company poet Bonny Cassidy. [19]
He accompanied Malcolm and his sister Mavis Eileen Howie to preaching engagements and on wildflower collecting excursions.
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The exhibition comprised principally original works of art, specimens, and other objects from the State Botanical Collection, plus some material borrowed from private individuals. The exhibition toured to: Horsham Regional Art Gallery (9 January-4 March 2007); McClelland Gallery and the Australian Garden, Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne (7 April-11 June 2007); Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery (20 August-7 October 2007); Gippsland Art Gallery (13 October-11 November 2007); Domain House, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne (24 November-17 December 2007); National Museum of Australia, Canberra (13 March-9 June 2008); Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston (16 August-16 November 2008); Gordon Gallery, Geelong (25 February-8 April 2009); Museum of Economic Botany, Adelaide Botanic Garden (5 June-30 September 2009).
Catalog of an exhibition held at Domain House, Dallas Brooks Drive, South Yarra, from 18 July to 7 August 2011
The watercolours, also from the Herbarium, were produced by gifted commercial and natural history artist, Malcolm Howie (1900–1936).
The exhibition also features the beautiful fungi watercolours by Malcolm Howie and botanical models from our collection.
Twenty watercolours from the collection at the University of Melbourne Herbarium are currently on show in Still Life at the Buxton Contemporary in Southbank.
I decided that Howie's life and images would feature in my poem as perhaps a narrative or ekphrastic allusion.