The Art of Howard Terpning - Hardcover

Elmer Kelton

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0867130113 ISBN 13: 9780867130119

Publisher: The Greenwich Workshop Press, 1992

Synopsis

The seminal collection of paintings from Howard Terpning, master painter of the Plains Indians.

About this title

About the Author:

Elmer Kelton has written over forty books, four of which won the Western Heritage Award including The Art of Howard Terpning (Greenwich Workshop Press) He has won numerous awards and the Texas Legislature proclaimed Elmer Kelton Day in April 1997. He and his wife of over fifty years live near San Angelo, Texas, about 130 miles from where he was born and raised.

From Publishers Weekly:

Terpning's most effective paintings of the Plains Indians have an unaffected simplicity and quiet strength. Too often, however, the Arizona-based artist purveys a romanticized view of Native Americans striking noble poses. His gift for storytelling enlivens many of these pictures, such as a study of Cheyenne vision-seekers keeping a vigil in the hope that a spirit-guide will appear. Other works have ethnographic value, like the portrait of a young Cheyenne girl undergoing a ceremonial initiation into womanhood, or a depiction of Arapahos doing the Ghost Dance, a desperate mystical ritual intended to make the white man go away and the buffalo herds return. This lavishly illustrated album also features numerous historical paintings, including scenes of the Army's pursuit of Geronimo and other Apaches in 1886. In his engaging text, Kelton, a journalist and chronicler of the American West, discusses various tribes' origins, symbols, customs, child-rearing practices and the status of women.
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About this edition

• Publisher: The Greenwich Workshop Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0867130113
• ISBN 13: 9780867130119
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160