HOWARD TERPNING - Hope Springs Eternal - The Ghost Dance Ltd Ed signed 27x37

Description

HOWARD TERPNING
(b. 1927)
“HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL”
(The Ghost Dance)
print only
Limited Edition
hand signed and numbered by the artist
#713 / 2250
page = 26 ½” x 37”
ABOUT THIS IMAGE:
By combining their strength, the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians were able to crush General George Custer's elite 7th Cavalry at Little Big Horn in 1876. That victory was to prove as ill-fated to the Indian cultures as to Custer and his men.
The United States government threw its might into destroying the Indians. Buffalo hunters slaughtered the bison, nearly exterminating the species. The Indians were hunted and harried and, by 1881, the last Plains Indians had been driven onto the harsh, unproductive lands set aside as reservations. There, pestilence and privation decimated their numbers and the Indian culture wane.
As a result, the Ghost Dance religion swept the Great Plains like wildfire. The Indians' culture had been destroyed by the white man and the Indians were ready to grasp at any straw that would promise a return to the old ways. By 1890, most tribes were practicing the religion, which prophesied that all the buffalo would reappear, the white man would vanish and all the Indian dead would come back to life.
It was said that the Ghost Dance shirts and dresses would protect the wearer from white man's bullets but at the Wounded Knee massacre, the Indians discovered that the garments gave no protection. After that tragedy, they last hope was destroyed and they lost heart.
bought in 1991 unframed for 5
THIS LISTING IS FOR THE PRINT ONLY.
YOU CAN HAVE THE FRAME FOR JUST THE COST OF SHIPPING
the frame is about 34” x 43”
i have no plans to ship the glass pane, although i might consider doing so, but without any guarantee that it arrives unbroken, as it is so large
Howard Terpning is one of the most recognized (and awarded) Cowboy Artists of America members
Some of what has been written about Terpning and his work:
"That Terpning is a realist is plain enough, since his work is primarily representational, not formal. But it is not a realism of minute detail for its own sake, without regard to the context of light and of the subject's character. Nor is it the sort of pop realism that places subjects in happenstance circumstances like tourists with a snapshot camera. Terpning's realism takes for granted the representational nature of art and takes it from there."
"Although his paintings actually read as bold declarations, Terpning's choice of palette is typically restrained in order to ensure that narrative is the first impression imparted upon a viewer.
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