Howard Terpning "Profile of Wisdom" Signed Limited Edition Print, 1993

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A signed and numbered limited edition print of Howard Terpning's "Profile of Wisdom," published by The Greenwich Workshop in 1993. … Read more A signed and numbered limited edition print of Howard Terpning's "Profile of Wisdom," published by The Greenwich Workshop in 1993. A Plains elder stands in profile with his long hair loose, earrings hanging past his jaw and a bone breastplate at his chest, holding a long pipe across his fringed robe. The image comes from Terpning's charcoal drawing, which won the Cowboy Artists of America Gold Medal for Drawing in 1992. On the documentation card that comes with the print, he writes that he wanted to show a man of great strength of character, the kind of wisdom the Plains leaders and holy men carried, and that in charcoal there is no color to lean on, so the values alone have to carry the picture.

Lithograph published by The Greenwich Workshop of Trumbull, Connecticut, from Terpning's original drawing. Signed "Terpning" and numbered 29/1000 in pencil within the image at lower right, just below the plate signature "© Terpning 1992 CA." The margin carries the publisher's copyright line, the title and the artist's name. The edition was 1,000 signed and consecutively numbered prints plus 50 artist's proofs and 2 printer's proofs.

Howard Terpning was born in Illinois in 1927 and studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and the American Academy of Art. He first made his name as an illustrator, painting covers for Time and Newsweek and posters for films including Doctor Zhivago and The Sound of Music, before moving to Arizona in 1977 to paint the West. Often called the "Storyteller of the Native American," he won numerous gold and silver medals from the Cowboy Artists of America and the Prix de West from the National Academy of Western Art.

Comes with the original Greenwich Workshop portfolio folder with its title label and the documentation card with Terpning's notes on the drawing and his biography.

Image: 26 x 17 1/2 inches. Sheet: 29 1/2 x 20 1/2 inches. Unframed. See less