Coeur d'Alene Art Auction - July 2021

– 124 – 160 Howard Terpning (b. 1927) Apache (2009) oil on board 15 × 13 inches signed lower right: Terpning 2009 CA VERSO Signed and titled In Howard Terpning: Spirit of the Plains People , Don Hedgpeth wrote, “The Apache was as tough as the country in which he lived. Arizona was his stronghold and he knew that lonesome land, every hidden mountain pass and secret desert pool in the rock. The Apache seemed primitive in comparison to the Great Plains tribes that developed elaborate cultures based upon the buffalo. There was nothing of feathers and flamboyance about the Apache. He lived in crude stick shelters called ‘wickiups’ and scavenged for food like his wild brother, the wolf.” PROVENANCE Coeur d’Alene Art Auction, Reno, Nevada, 2017 Private collection, Reno, Nevada $40,000–60,000