Howard Terpning (b. 1927) — Traveling in Good Company (1978)

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• Lot Description
  
  Howard Terpning (b. 1927)
  Traveling in Good Company (1978)
  oil on canvas
  24 × 38 inches
  signed and dated lower left
  
  VERSO
  Signed and titled
  Label, Autry National Center, Los Angeles, California
  Label, Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma
  
  Proceeds from this sale will benefit the Art Acquisition Fund for the Autry Museum of the American West.
  
  Elmer Kelton wrote, “Early contacts between white men and the Plains Indians were usually friendly, or at least benign. The first newcomers were usually explorers, like Lewis and Clark, looking for trails, not trouble. They were soon followed by traders and trappers, the storied mountain men, who cut new trails of their own or mastered old trails established by the Indians. In the beginning, these bearded white men tended to establish alliances with various tribes. Some lifelong friendships were born. For furs and woman-tanned buffalo robes, they traded beads and mirrors, flint and steel, blankets, muskets, and powder. Many married Indian women, some out of genuine love, others for convenience and to solidify their position with their chosen tribes.
  
  “Strife arose as allegiances to one tribe automatically made them enemies of others, and as they began to hunt and trap on jealously guarded grounds. Some of it came out of competition between fur-trading companies, one agitating its allied Indians to war against the men who trapped for another.
  
  “This painting depicts two men of different races riding together as friends and partners in the cold light of the Rocky Mountain high country.”
  
  The artist wrote, “The Crow People were active players and prospered in the fur trade. They welcomed the small parties of white trappers and traders into their camps, and they served as middlemen between the whites and the other tribes who wanted to trade. The fur trade was the vanguard of westward expansion for half a century, until the beaver became scarce.”
  
  PROVENANCE
  Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, California
  
  EXHIBITED
  Gilcrease Rendezvous, Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1985
  Howard Terpning: Tribute to the Plains People, Autry National Center, Los Angeles, California, 2012
  
  LITERATURE
  Don Dedera, Howard Terpning: The Storyteller, The Greenwich Workshop Press, 1989, pp. 86-87, illustrated
  Elmer Kelton, The Art of Howard Terpning, The Greenwich Workshop Press, 1992, pp. 118-19, illustrated
  Don Hedgpeth, Howard Terpning: Spirit of the Plains People, The Greenwich Workshop Press, 2001, pp. 58-59, illustrated
  Harley Brown, Terpning: Tribute to the Plains People, The Greenwich Workshop Press, 2012, p. 58, illustrated
  
  
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  Condition

  Surface is in excellent condition. No signs of restoration.
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  • Hammer Price	Premium (%)
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    $1,000,000	15.00