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Howard Warshaw is recognized as a significant American modernist and master draftsman. From his humanist perspective, Warshaw attempted to meld baroque, cubist, and expressionist aspirations, and late in his life experimented with mixed media and other technologically informed processes. His work is held by major American Museums including the Whitney Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

Howard Warshaw was born August 1920 in New York City. Warshaw began his studies in the fine arts at the National Academy of Design and at the Art Students League in New York under Homer Boss and Howard Trafton. In 1942, he moved to Los Angeles and was introduced to William Brice, Eugene Berman, and most importantly, Rico Lebrun who became especially influential in terms of artistic direction and cultural environment. Warshaw taught at the short-lived Jepson Art Institute, and in 1956 accepted an invitation to join the art faculty at UC Santa Barbara where he remained till his death in 1977.