Humbert Howard

Humbert Howard (1905 or 1915–1990) was an American artist and art director of the Pyramid Club.

Biography Howard was born in Philadelphia. Sources differ on Howard's birth year, some stating 1905 and some stating 1915. Howard attended Howard University and the University of Pennsylvania. During the 1930s Howard worked for the Philadelphia Works Progress Administration's Art project (WPA). The Pyramid Club was an African-American social club in Philadelphia. Howard selected works for the club's annual exhibitions in New York and Philadelphia. the Delaware Art Museum, His paper are in the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution.

Legacy In 2000 his work was included in An Exuberant Bounty: Prints and Drawings by African Americans at the Philadelphia Museum of Art]. Howard's work was included in the 2015 exhibition We Speak: Black Artists in Philadelphia, 1920s-1970s at the Woodmere Art Museum.