Loretta Hines Howard

Loretta Hines Howard (1904 — April 2, 1982) was an American artist and collector.[1][2][3] Howard was a collector of Neapolitan crèche figures from the 18th-century. In 1957, Howard began what would become a forty-year tradition of decorating the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Christmas tree with items from her créche collection, integrating the Roman Catholic practice of creating nativity scenes with the European protestant tradition of tree decoration.[4] In the early 1960s, she donated her collection to the museum.[5][6]

Howard's work as a painter is included in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art.[1] Her papers, 1926–1941, are held by the Smithsonian.[7]

Her funeral was held at St. Ignatius Loyola Roman Catholic Church, Manhattan before burial in Valley, Wyoming.[2][3]

References
  1. "Artist: Loretta Howard". Whitney Museum. Archived from the original on 8 April 2019. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
  2. "Loretta Hines Howard, Artist". The New York Times. 3 April 1982. p. 18. Archived from the original on 8 April 2019. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
  3. McNairy, Stephanie Andrews (2005). "Artist Biographies". In Wardle, Marian (ed.). American Women Modernists: The Legacy of Robert Henri, 1910-1945. New Bunswick, NJ: Brigham Young University Museum of Art with Rutgers University Press. p. 204. ISBN 978-0-8135-3684-2. OCLC 57557328. OL 4496824W – via Google Books.
  4. Gunn, T. Jeremy (2010). "Religious Symbols and Religious Expression in the Public Square". In Davis, Derek H. (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Church and State in the United States. Oxford University Press. p. 289. ISBN 978-0-19-020878-3. OCLC 461895952. OL 18548483W – via Google Books.
  5. "Tree". Christmas at the New Yorker: Stories, Poems, Humor, and Art. New York: Random House. 2003. p. 240. ISBN 978-1-4000-6341-3. OCLC 52257914. OL 3685042M – via Google Books.
  6. Dunlap, David W. (23 December 2014). "Family Protests After Its Tradition of Installing Crèche at the Met Is Halted". The New York Times (published 24 December 2014). pp. A.16. ProQuest 1639820614. Archived from the original on 8 April 2019. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
  7. "Loretta Hines Howard papers, 1926-1941". Archives of American Art. Smithsonian Institution. Archived from the original on 14 June 2018. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
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