2014 Coeur d’Alene Art Auction / Lot 229
229
Howard Terpning (b. 1927)
Spoils of War (1979)
oil on canvas
14 × 17.75 inches
signed and dated lower left
Verso:
Signed and titled
According to Don Dedera, “Not a large painting, this depicts two Apache Indians with a pony; evidence indicates a victorious encounter or successful raid. They’ve appropriated whatever they could get their hands on. They have a trapdoor Springfield carbine, a sergeant’s jacket, and a Cavalry hat. The Apaches have to be counted among the more keen and crafty guerrillas the world has ever known.”
LITERATURE:
Don Dedera, Howard Terpning: The Storyteller (Trumbull, CT: The Greenwich Workshop, 1989), page 101, illustrated