Howard Terpning, Brodkin Contemporary Western Artists Project

Howard Terpning was interviewed in his Tucson, Arizona home by Dickinson Research Center Director Chuck Rand and videotaped by Rogelio Garcia on November 12, 2004. In 1977 Terpning bid farewell to the world of illustration and began focusing his art work on the Native American people of the Great Plains. He has been a member of the Cowboy Artists of America since 1979. The National Cowboy Museum holds two of paintings, Moving Day on the Flathead and The Trophy. A New York Times article called Terpning "the most famous American artist you never heard of." The hour-long interview is available for viewing at the Donald C. & Elizabeth M. Dickinson Research Center, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Please visit the following websites: Brodkin Contemporary Western Artists Project http://www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/r... Dickinson Research Center website: http://www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/r... National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum website: http://www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/