The gallery publishes monographs on the artists it represents, and Janet Howell has written exhibition catalogues on early California painters
Jeff Daniel Smith
The California Landscape
1956 – 2023
111 pages · Hardbound with dust jacket
© 2023 J. Howell Fine Art · $75.00
Published by the gallery, a survey of Smith's California landscapes — the coastlines, rolling hills and historic barns he painted for more than three decades.
Rip Matteson
A Life in Art
1920 – 2011
177 pages · Hardbound with dust jacket
© 2017 J. Howell Fine Art · $85.00
A comprehensive retrospective of the painter's work, published by J. Howell Fine Art in 2017. Matteson devoted his life to art as a painter, teacher, cartoonist and advocate for the arts.
The Legacy of Percy Gray
Carmel Art Association
Exhibition catalogue
Available through the Carmel Art Association
The Percy Gray exhibition, presented in its entirety in this volume, showed Gray's vision as an artist. He found inspiration in the California landscape and his art expressed that emotional response to nature. The quiet solitude of his paintings serves as recorded history — a reminder that the expanse of the California landscape has begun to disappear, and that each year it becomes more important to protect and preserve it.
E. Charlton Fortune
1885 – 1969
Exhibition catalogue
Available through the Carmel Art Association
A renowned painter of landscapes and harbour scenes, E. Charlton Fortune is recognised as one of the most significant painters in the history of California art, and has become one of the most sought-after women painters of the West. She was an early member of the Carmel Art Association when it was founded in 1927.
Born in Sausalito, Fortune studied at Edinburgh College of Art and in London before returning to California in 1905. By 1913 she was dividing her time between San Francisco and Monterey. In the mid-1930s she left landscape painting to found the Monterey Guild, dedicated to reviving ecclesiastical art.
Both catalogues accompanied exhibitions Janet curated at the Carmel Art Association. She authored The Legacy of Percy Gray, and is one of the contributing writers to E. Charlton Fortune, 1885–1969, which carries an introduction by Dr William H. Gerdts. Both are available from the CAA bookstore, on Dolores Street between 5th and 6th in Carmel-by-the-Sea, open daily 10am – 5pm. They ship by media mail; call or text 831.250.3347.