Born in Zanesville, Ohio, John Dare Howland is claimed by Colorado art historians as the state's first resident artist. Early in his career he was a sketch artist and illustrator for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Magazine and Harper's Weekly, and after the Civil War he dedicated himself to fine art painting, with many of his subjects being buffalo, which he had seen in abundance on the Plains in the pre-railroad era of the West.
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