Howard Mitcham Oil Painting of Nocturnal Cityscape, 1945

Item Details

Howard Mitcham (American, 1917 – 1996)
Untitled (Nocturnal cityscape), 1945
Oil painting on canvas
Signed and dated to the stretcher verso

Howard Mitcham is best known for his culinary endeavors, poetry, and his abstract compositions, most of them inspired in the nocturnal and bohemian life of Provincetown, Massachusetts. After graduating from high school, he moved to Louisiana where he acquired his formal artistic training at the Louisiana State University. In the late 1940s, Mitcham went on to pursue his artistic career and moved to Greenwich Village, New York. Subsequently, he moved to Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he dabbled in many disciplines including poetry and painting. But it was after his immersion into cooking, that he became the local culinary “legend”, for what is recognized today. The last published book by renowned chef, Anthony Bourdain, was a tribute to Howard Mitcham’s best-known publication, Provincetown Seafood Cookbook (1975). Bourdain referred to Howard Mitcham’s cookbook as “one of the most influential of my life.”

Condition

- minor areas of fraying and tears throughout the edges of canvas; minor wear and negligible paint loss throughout the edges of painting; negligible spots of paint loss throughout the composition.

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Item #

ITMG384709