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Delmas Howe Born 1935 Delmas Howe was born in El Paso, Texas and raised in Truth or Consequences New Mexico. After graduating from high school he progressed through undergraduate work at Wichita State University, then four years in the U.S. Air Force, a move to the East Coast, graduate work at Yale and several years of classes at the School of Visual Arts and the Art Students' League while working as a professional musician. After a return to the West and a successful design and art studio in Amarillo, Texas, he re-established himself in an old adobe post office in Truth or Consequences where he lives and works. Howe's work has appeared in many anthologies of painting and a documentary on his life and work was released in 2006; The Truth or Consequences of Delmas Howe. |
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While many observers of Delmas Howe's work note its startling juxtaposition of male nudes in the land of the Marlboro man, there is much more to his paintings, lithographs, drawings and monotypes than shock value. In fact, his work is informed by a deep appreciation for the classical art and mythology of Greece and Rome, an abiding love for and technical mastery of the Western landscape, and a sensitive reinterpretation of male values in Western society today. Howe says, "I was raised on the laps of real cowboys, and my little boy mind put the two together: that eroticism remains with me today." Howe further notes, "I'm simply using the male figure to discuss things I'm ... interested in and which reflect my life. My works always get characterized as homoerotic, but I have never even thought of them in that way ... I see the cowboy as just about the only thing that approaches romantic mysticism in America." |
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