VERSO
Artist label with signature, title, and date
Label, Cowboy Artists of America, Phoenix, Arizona
Label, Cowboy Artists of America Museum, Kerrville, Texas

Describing this painting Terpning biographer Elmer Kelton wrote, “Three Apaches race to stay ahead of a dust devil, the desert hot-weather whirlwind which picks up dust and debris and spins them around then dies and lets them settle slowly back to the earth. The white man speaks of thermals and explains them in dry meteorological terms, but the Apache of old knew better. He knew that the devil was inside the whirlwind, and that if an Indian were caught up in it, he would soon die.

“The artist saw this as an interesting problem in design. He wanted a strong feeling of motion, to convey the sense that the Apaches were galloping their horses as hard as they could.”

PROVENANCE
Cowboy Artists of America, Phoenix, Arizona, 1990
Private collection, Aspen, Colorado, 1990
Private collection, Tucson, Arizona, 2013
Coeur d’Alene Art Auction, Reno, Nevada, 2018
Private collection, Wyoming

EXHIBITED
Cowboy Artists of America 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, 1990
Canvas-ing the West: Gary Carter & Howard Terpning, Cowboy Artists of America Museum, Kerrville, Texas, 1997

LITERATURE
Elmer Kelton, The Art of Howard Terpning, The Greenwich Workshop, 1992, p. 81, illustrated

Additional Resources

• Howard Terpning’s Past Results
• View Condition Report

Condition ReportSurface is in excellent condition. No signs of restoration.

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