“The Spirit is Willing” by John Newton Howitt / SOLD
Pulp magazine print of the 1910 painting “The Spirit is Willing” by John Newton Howitt, depicting a parade of aging G.A.R. members parading past an elderly Civil War veteran in a wheelchair saluting the American flag, The print remains in very good condition and is house in a 16 ¾” by 12 ¾” wooden frame. John Newton Howitt (1885-1958) was an illustrator and landscape painter from White Plains, New York. His is the classic case of an artist torn between the divergent worlds of commercial and fine art and between what he considered the higher and lower levels of commercial illustration. After a successful career in major magazine illustration, he was forced by the Depression to paint for the pulp magazines, which activity he disliked intensely. He would return, at the beginning of World War II, to magazines such as Colliers and Liberty, and to his landscape painting, but, ironically, it is his illustrations of the pulps for which he is most remembered.
Inventory Number: PRI 174 / SOLD