Howard TERPNING ✿

Howard Terpning is an American painter and illustrator best known for his paintings of Native Americans.Was born in Oak Park, on Nov. 5th, 1927. He loved to draw as a child and by the age of 7 he knew in his heart that he wanted to be an artist. He was then hired as an illustrator and eventually worked on a free lance basis illustrating magazines and movie posters. He had completed over 80 movie posters including The Guns of Navarone, Cleopatra, Doctor Zhivago, The Sound of Music, The Sand Pebbles, and the 1967 re-release of Gone with the Wind. His work has been described as realistic but primarily representative instead of formal. A lot of his artwork is hanging in museums where he is world renown.