Howard Russell Butler
(American 1856-1934)

After completing law school in 1882, Butler studied at the Art Students League and at the Academie Colarossi in Paris. Primarily a landscape painter, he traveled and painted extensively throughout the U.S., as well as painting at the artists’ colony in Concarneau, Brittany. His exhibition history includes the Paris Salon, National Academy of Design, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Art Institute of Chicago, Corcoran Gallery, Boston Art Club, and the Chicago, St. Louis, and Pan-Pacific expositions; he frequently won prizes and medals at these venues.