The Trailer
Delmas Howe
Created : 1992
Donated : 1993
Medium : Lithograph
Dimensions: 30 inx42 in
Located: 2nd Floor,Room 211 Hallway
Delmas Howe’s work is informed by an abiding love for and technical mastery of the landscape of the West, particularly of New Mexico; a sensitive reinterpretation of male values in Western society today; and a deep appreciation for the classical art and mythology of Greece and Rome. “The Trailer” is indicative of his preoccupation with the land that surrounds him. More common to Howe’s work is the juxtaposition of male nudes, particularly cowboys, in the rugged and dramatic Western terrain. Howe sees the cowboy as “just about the only thing that approaches romantic mysticism in America.”
Howe has been working as an artist for 20 years. His undying dedication to his art has granted him countless opportunities for the exhibition and reproduction of his images. He has exhibited work at the Leslie Lohman Gallery in New York, in a museum exhibition in El Paso and in the prestigious Phoenix Triennial. His lithograph “Three Graces” was accepted into the permanent collection of the British Museum. He saw the release of his monograph Rodeo Pantheon: Gender in Contemporary Art, and the publication of his work “Hero One—Birth of a Hero” in the book Race, Sex and Gender in Contemporary Art, by noted art historian Edward Lucie-Smith. The 1993 publication of Lucie-Smith’s latest book The History of American Realism also included Howe’s image St. Sebastian. Howe lives and works in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. His own words make clear his commitment to the southwest and its wealth of imagery. “There’s lots of imagery I want to explore in the future, but I can’t foresee that ever taking me outside of the southwest, where there’s still tons of iconography I’m planning to use.”
