Abstract and Surrealist painter, born in New Jersey, America. Studied at University of California, travelled on the continent, lived for a time in Paris where he was influenced by Jean Hélion, then settled in London, 1939–40. Initially Howard painted murals, and was employed to paint Edward Wadsworth’s nautical designs on the wall of the de la Warr Pavilion in Bexhill, 1936, the year he exhibited with the British Surrealist Group in the first London Surrealist Exhibition. Howard had a show of abstract pictures at Guggenheim Jeune Gallery in 1939. After an absence he returned to Britain in 1946, was given a retrospective at Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1956 and became a British citizen in 1963. He was included in The Surrealist Spirit in Britain, Whitford and Hughes, 1988.