Sidney Howard

Sidney Howard (1913 – August 12, 1992) was a Canadian folk artist who carved wood sculptures, sometimes life-size, and reliefs of people, either drawn from fantasy or based on models, fish, beavers, cats, birds and a totem pole. His trademark was the feeling of vitality in his creations. His work was known not only nationally but internationally.

Biography Howard was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, and served in the army before getting married in 1945, then moved to Ontario where he worked for 18 years in the Garden City Paper Mill in St. Catharines (now closed). Howard's wife died in 1952 Since he had no car, he began carving much larger sculptures to put up outside the entrance to the path to his house to signify he lived there and welcome visitors. In the late sixties, many of his works were destroyed in a fire.

His creations have been called "whimsical" "exaggerated" and with a "quirky" character.

Howard died of cancer in 1992. In 2013, Judy DIetz for the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia organized an exhibition titled Show of Hands of Howard's work among others.

Selected public collections Cape Breton University Art Gallery; Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax; Canadian Museum of History, Gatineau, Quebec; Art Windsor-Essex;