Isabella Howland

{{Short description|American painter and sculptor}}

Isabella Howland (1895–1974) was an American painter, sculptor, and caricaturist.

Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, Howland was associated with Maine for much her career;{{cite book|author1=Jules Heller|author2=Nancy G. Heller|title=North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AYxmAgAAQBAJ&pg=PR11|date=19 December 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-63882-5}} she also lived and worked in New York City.{{cite web|url=https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/isabella-howland-papers-7813 |title=Isabella Howland papers, 1899–1979 | Archives of American Art |publisher=Aaa.si.edu |date=2016-12-14 |accessdate=2017-01-28}} Several of her works are owned by the Whitney Museum of American Art, and she is also represented in the collection of the Ogunquit Museum of American Art.{{cite book|author=Patricia Schultz|title=1,000 Places to See in the United States and Canada Before You Die|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7-prDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA33|date=24 November 2016|publisher=Workman Publishing Company, Incorporated|isbn=978-0-7611-8943-5|pages=33–}} As a student at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, she received a scholarship to work at the Art Students League of New York.{{cite book|title=International Studio|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e_pGAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA257|year=1917|publisher=New York Offices of the International Studio|pages=257–}} Her papers are currently in the collection of the Archives of American Art. Ten of her caricatures of artists are owned by the National Portrait Gallery.{{cite web|url=https://npg.si.edu/portraits/collection-search?return_all=1&edan_q=Isabella%20Howland%2C&|title=Portrait Search Isabella Howland|publisher=|accessdate=12 June 2020}}