Howard Terpning Pencil Signed Limited Edition Print Of Warrior On Horse 1975 (322 Of 1250)

Measures: 20.5 x 17.5 (interior: 13" x 10)

About Howard Terpning: "Around 1974, Terpning began to tire of commercial work and decided to follow his interest in the American West and Plains Indians. Consequently, he began to transition into fine art by creating paintings and selling them in Western galleries. The first paintings sold for $2,000 to $2,500. After three years, he left Connecticut and the commercial art world and moved to Arizona to devote himself entirely to painting the American West. Within two years he was elected to both the National Academy of Western Art and the Cowboy Artists of America (CA). In the 22 years he was an active member of the CAA, Terpning earned 42 awards for his work.[1][9]

In 1985, Terpning was honored with a retrospective at the Gilcrease Museum with 38 original works on display.[4] His work has also been displayed in Beijing, China, and the Grand Palais in Paris.[10]


Search for the Renegades by © Howard Terpning
Some of what has been written about Terpning and his work:

"That Terpning is a realist is plain enough, since his work is primarily representational, not formal. But it is not a realism of minute detail for its own sake, without regard to the context of light and of the subject's character. Nor is it the sort of pop realism that places subjects in happenstance circumstances like tourists with a snapshot camera. Terpning's realism takes for granted the representational nature of art and takes it from there."[11]
"Although his paintings actually read as bold declarations, Terpning's choice of palette is typically restrained in order to ensure that narrative is the first impression imparted upon a viewer."[12]
The late Fred A. Myers, director of Gilcrease Museum said of Terpning, "[he] is simply the best and best-known artist doing Western subjects at this point... He is among a very small group of painters of the West in the late 20th century whose art will still be hanging in museums and appreciated a hundred years from now."[6]:153

In 2006, at the Coeur d'Alene Art Auction Terpning's Search for the Renegades sold for over 1.4 million, The Stragglers sold for just over 1 million.[13]

Terpning was profiled November 30, 2008, on CBS Sunday Morning.[citation needed]

Some of the museums Terpning's work can be found at include the Phoenix Art Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Autry National Center of the American West, Gilcrease Museum, Eiteljorg Museum, Booth Western Art Museum and The Eddie Basha Collection."

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