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Howard R. Sebold, Artist, Watercolorist, California Regionalist Howard Robinson Sebold

Howard Robinson Sebold was born in Dayton, Ohio on June 4, 1899. He attended Iowa State College and Ohio State University in 1919 through 1922. He is found attending Cornell in 1923, where he earned his B.S. degree.

He attended Harvard University School of Landscape Architecture 1923 through 1926 and                  was awarded the M.L.A degree. During this period he studied under the renowned Eliot O’Hara at his famous Goose Rocks Beach School. O’Hara, famous for his brush techniques, taught a small group of up and coming artists each summer.

In 1937 he is listed as being a member of the American Society of Landscape Architecture.

Sebold briefly studied during the summers in Spain, Italy, France, Switzerland and England. In 1943 he was a doctoral candidate in the Landscape Architecture field at the University of California at Berkeley. In Florida by 1947, he was a Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Florida (Gainesville). Subsequently, he was made Chairman of that department until 1966, when he retired.

In his early years, Sebold exhibited his paintings with the American Watercolor Society and the New York Water Color Society. These showings earned him a listing in Who Was Who in American Artists 1564 – 1975.

Harvard Library has 10 of his published works.

Sebold was a part of the Regionalism movement of the early 20th Century. Most of his known works are of California landscapes. However, there are a very few ink drawings and photographs attributed to Sebold.

Sebold and his wife were childless. Former students have said they were treated as though they were his family. A former student and a professor at the University of Florida created the Howard R. Sebold Award, for a graduate student of Landscape Architecture. Howard Robinson Sebold died on June 22, 1970 in Gainesville, Florida.