HOWARD FUSSINER (1923-2006) was born in New York City. He studied at the American People’s School, the Art Students League, The Hans Hofmann School, Cooper Union and New York University, where he received his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Art Education.

From 1942 to 1945, he served in the Pacific Theater of World War II, mostly on the island of Ie Shima in the Okinawa Prefecture.

He was a Humanities Instructor at Morehouse College for three years, a Professor of Art at Colby Junior College for two years and a Professor of Art at Southern Connecticut State University for twenty-eight years.

In his lifetime, he was represented in many one-man and group shows in New York, New Haven and throughout New England, including a thirty-year retrospective at the Munson Gallery in 1990. His paintings and prints are in the collections of the National Gallery in DC, the Slater Museum, The Yale Art Gallery, The New Britain Museum of American Art, and the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.

Although he painted all over the world, he is most well known for his landscape and parade paintings of Maine.

Howard Fussiner died on November 7, 2006, in New Haven, Connecticut.

For him, the gods were Bonnard, Cezanne, and Matisse.