Terpning has had solo shows at museums specializing in the West — the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Okla., the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indianapolis, and now the Autry.

Terpning moved to Tucson, Arizona in 1977 to document Native American culture and the American West. In 1979, he was elected to the National Academy of Western Art and the Cowboy Artists of America.

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The American Academy of Art, will present former student and world-famous American Western artist, Howard Terpning, with its 2010 Distinguished Alumnus Award. Terpning ...

In 1977, Terpning moved to Tucson, Arizona, to document Native American culture and the America West. Two years later, he was elected to the National Academy of Western Art and, by unanimous vote ...

Two 1967 oil paintings by Howard A. Terpning (b. 1927), the painter known as “the storyteller of the Native American,’’ lead off James D. Julia’s auction of more than 2,000 lots of fine ...

For 30 years, a replica of a red Cheyenne shield has hung on a wall in the studio of Howard Terpning, an artist renowned for his Native American–themed paintings.