2015 Coeur d’Alene Art Auction / Lot 172
172
Howard Terpning (b. 1927)
Black Horned Bonnet (1993)
oil on board
22 × 13.5 inches
signed and dated lower right
VERSO
Signed, titled, and dated
According to the artist, “This type of Bonnet was worn by many men of the plains tribes. The crown could be covered in buffalo fur, or sometimes clipped Crow feathers, breath feathers, or bits of dyed horse hair adorned the tips of the horns.”
EXHIBITED
Twenty-eighth Annual Exhibition, Cowboy Artists of America, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ, Oct 22 - Nov 21, 1993