Humbert Howard (1905 or 1915-1990) was an American artist and art director of the Pyramid Club.

Howard was born in Philadelphia. Sources differ on Howard's birth year, some stating 1905^{[1][2][3][4][5]} and some stating 1915.^[6][7][8] Howard attended Howard University and the University of Pennsylvania. During the 1930s Howard worked for the Philadelphia Works Progress Administration's Art project (WPA).^[1]

Howard was best known for being an active member of the Pyramid Club, serving as the art/exhibition director from 1940 through 1958.^[6][9] The Pyramid Club was an African-American social club in Philadelphia. Howard selected works for the club's annual exhibitions in New York and Philadelphia.^[7]

From 1959 to 1961^[5] Howard studied at the Barnes Foundation, an experience that affected his style, making it more abstract.^[1]

His work was included in the 1967 exhibition The Evolution of Afro-American Artists at the City College of New York.^[5]

Howard died in 1990 in Philadelphia.^[1]

Howard's work is in the collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,^[8] the Philadelphia Museum of Art,^[10] the Delaware Art Museum,^[5] and the Woodmere Art Museum.^[11] His paper are in the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution.^[12]

In 2000 his work was included in An Exuberant Bounty: Prints and Drawings by African Americans at the Philadelphia Museum of Art].^[13] Howard's work was included in the 2015 exhibition We Speak: Black Artists in Philadelphia, 1920s-1970s at the Woodmere Art Museum.^[14]