Howard Terpning was born on November 5,1927 and is an American painter and illustrator best known for his paintings of Native Americans.
12 Facts About Howard Terpning
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Howard Terpning's mother was an interior decorator, and his father worked for the railroad.
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Howard Terpning grew up in the Midwest living in Iowa, Missouri, and Texas as well as Illinois.
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In 1967, in the midst of his commercial art career Howard Terpning left his home in Connecticut and headed to Vietnam as a civilian combat artist.
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Howard Terpning was invited by the Marine Corps to document the war by living with the Marines for one month.
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Around 1974 Howard Terpning began to tire of commercial work and decided to follow his interest in the American West and Plains Indians.
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Howard Terpning began to transition into fine art by creating paintings and selling them in Western galleries.
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In 1985, Howard Terpning was honored with a retrospective at the Gilcrease Museum with 38 original works on display.
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Howard Terpning's work has been displayed in Beijing, China, and the Grand Palais in Paris.
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Howard Terpning's realism takes for granted the representational nature of art and takes it from there.
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Howard Terpning 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.
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Howard Terpning was profiled November 30,2008, on CBS Sunday Morning.