Howard Terpning Prints For Art Lovers
by Doris Rivas
If you love old movie posters or Western art, you may want to buy some Howard Terpning prints. The former illustrator is now one of the most important painters of Western and Native American themes, earning him the moniker 'Storyteller of the Native American people'. His original paintings are reaching ever higher prices. For example, 'Search for the Renegades' reached a selling price of over $1.4 million at a 2006 auction.
Born in Illinois in 1927, the artist was raised in the Midwest. He spent his childhood in states like Illinois, Iowa, Texas and Missouri. After high school he joined the Marines and spent time with this division of the armed forces in 1945 and 1946. He then utilized the GI Bill to pay for his art tuition, studying for two years at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and then for six months at the Chicago-based American Academy of Art.
Terpning's first job after art school was as apprentice for one of the foremost illustrators at the time, Haddon Sundblom. Once he started working on his own commissions, he got a job at a Milwaukee studio and then moved on to a studio in New York. However, by 1962 he had quit his job to become a freelance illustrator.
As illustrator the artist worked for Time, Newsweek, Reader's Digest, Ladies' Home Journal and Good Housekeeping, among others. For these publications he illustrated covers and stories. He also created art for advertisements.
During his period as freelance illustrator, Terpning also created art for Hollywood. Some of the film posters he illustrated include the posters for 'Doctor Zhivago', 'The Guns of Navarone', 'Lawrence of Arabia', 'Cleopatra' and 'The Sound of Music'. There are more than eighty Hollywood film posters that are his work.
As the Vietnam War was raging in 1967, the artist decided to give up commercial art for a while and spent some time in Vietnam as civilian combat artist. The Marines invited him to stay with them in their Vietnamese base for a month and this experience inspired six paintings. These paintings now grace the walls of the National Museum of the Marine Corps and in 2008, the Marine Corps Combat Artist Hall of Fame added Terpning to their list of inductees.
Terpning decided some time in the 1970s that he didn't want to be a commercial artist anymore. He used his love for the American West to create paintings that he sold to Western art galleries. A move to Arizona followed, so that he could focus on fine art completely. He became a prominent painter of Western and Native American themes and was soon an active member of both the Cowboy Artists of America and the National Academy of Western Art. He has received many awards for his work, among them forty-two just from the Cowboy Artists of America. Several Native American tribes have also paid tribute to him for his portrayal of their history.
You can see examples of the artist's work in some museums, including the Phoenix Art Museum. The Smithsonian and the National Portrait Gallery also exhibit his paintings. If you just have to have one of these images in your own home, you can buy <A href="http://www.bostonprintgallery.com/collections/howard-terpning">Howard Terpning prints</A> online. You can also find prints at various art galleries and reproductions of his movie posters are available from outlets that sell classic Hollywood posters.
Find a beautiful selection of prints that will enhance your living or work space at <a href="http://www.bostonprintgallery.com">www.bostonprintgallery.com</a> today. You can find the latest Howard Terpning prints that will create a beautiful addition to your home when you visit http://www.bostonprintgallery.com.
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Title: Howard Terpning Prints For Art Lovers
Author: Doris Rivas
Email: nathanwebster335@live.com
Keywords: Visual Arts,Posters and Print,Prints
Word Count: 561
Category: Hobbies
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