Conza Howell

1902-1987

American (New York, New York)

Conza Howell was born in 1902 in Charlotte, North Carolina, daughter of Charles Byrd Howell and Leslie Powell Howell. At some point before 1934, Conza moved to New York City. She attended Columbia University, the National Academy of Fine Arts, the Art Students League, and at the Fontainebleau Fine Arts School in France. Around 1935, she was hired as a stylist for the Decorative Fabrics Division of Burlington Mills Corp., New York, specializing in woman-focused jacquard fabrics.

In the years after World War II, Ms. Howell is working as a stylist and decorator. She met her future husband, Howard Moorehead Claney, a well-known radio announcer and artist, at an exhibition of his paintings, and the two got married on March 5, 1949. The couple resided in New York City for many years before retiring to North Carolina in 1970. Ms. Howell Claney died on October 20, 1987.