HOWARD  TERPNING
List of Awards

Since 1978, Howard has exhibited at the National Academy of Western Art. In 1980 he received the NAWA Gold Medal for oil, and in 1981 and 1996 he was awarded the Prix de West. In 1979 he became a member of the Cowboy Artists of America and has served as their President and member on the Board of Directors of the CA Museum, since joining the CAA. Howard has won numerous gold and silver medals and has been presented the CA award (formerly Colt Award and Stetson Award) by his fellow artists eleven times. His works have been presented at the Grand Palais in Paris and have been part of the American Western Art Show in Peking. In 1985 the Thomas Gilcrease Museum held a one-man show of Howard's work and in 2001 was honored with the Seeing What the Heart Knows: The Art of Howard Terpning exhibit, featuring 32 paintings at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art .

COWBOY ARTISTS OF AMERICA

• 1980 - Oil painting, silver, "Crossing Medicine Lodge Creek"
  
• 1980 - Drawing, silver, "The Spectators"
  
• 1980 - Men's Art Council Award, "Crossing Medicine Lodge Creek"
  
• 1980 - Colt Award, Artists' Choice
  
• 1981 - Oil painting, gold, "Dust of Many Pony Soldiers"
  
• 1981 - Drawing, gold, "The Warrior"
  
• 1981 - Western Art Association Best of Show Award, "Dust of Many Pony Soldiers"
  
• 1981 - Colt Award, Artists' Choice
  
• 1982 - Oil painting, silver, "The Scouts of General Crook"
  
• 1982 - Colt Award, Artists' Choice
  
• 1983 - Oil painting, gold, "Medicine Man of the Cheyenne"
  
• 1983 - Drawing and other media, silver, "Buffalo Runners"
  
• 1983 - Colt Award, Artists' Choice
  
• 1985 - Oil painting, gold, "Apache Fire Makers"
  
• 1985 - Other media, gold, "The Storyteller"
  
• 1986 - Oil painting, gold, "Cavalry Scouts"
  
• 1986 - Other media, gold, "Wolves"
  
• 1986 - Colt Award, Artists' Choice
  
• 1987 - Oil painting, gold, "Hope Springs Eternal-The Ghost Dance"
  
• 1987 - Western Art Association, Best of Show, "Hope Springs Eternal-The Ghost Dance"
  
• 1988 - Mixed media, gold, "On the Brink"
  
• 1989 - Oil painting, silver, "Major North and the Pawnee Battalion"
  
• 1990 - Stetson Award (formerly Colt Award), Artists Choice
  
• 1991 - Oil painting, gold, "Prospector's Among the Blackfeet"
  
• 1992 - Oil painting, gold, "Army Regulations"
  
• 1992 - Drawing and other media, gold, "Profile of Wisdom"
  
• 1992 - CA Award, Artists' Choice
  
• 1993 - CA Award, Artists' Choice
  
• 1995 - Oil painting, gold, "Crossing Below the Falls"
  
• 1995 - CA Award, Artists' Choice
  
• 1995 - Best of Show, Kerchiefed Award, "Crossing Below the Falls"
  
• 1997 - Oil painting, silver, "The Bonnet Case"
  
• 1997 - CA Award, Artists' Choice
  
• 1998 - Oil painting, gold, "Offerings to the Little People"
  
• 1998 - Gouache, gold, "Whiskey Smugglers"
  
• 1998 - Drawing and other media, gold, "Guarding the Lodge"
  
• 1998 - CA Award, Artists' Choice
  
• 1998 - Best of Show, Kieckhefer Award, "Offerings to the Little People"
  
• 2000 - Gouache, gold, "River Crow"
  
• 2000 - Oil painting, gold, "The Sound of the Buffalo"
  
• 2001 - Drawing and other media, gold, "Thunder Speaks"
• 2002 - Drawing and other media, silver, "Council Mediator"
   

NATIONAL ACADEMY OF WESTERN ART (N.A.W.A.)

• 1980 - Oil painting, gold, "Stones That Speak"
  
• 1981 - Prix de West, "Moving Day on the Flathead"
  
• 1981 - Oil painting, silver, "Moving Day on the Flathead"
  
• 1992 - Remington Award, "Against the Coldmaker"
  
• 1996 - Prix de West, "The Trophy"
  
• 1998 - Remington Award, "The River's Gift"
  

THE HUBBARD AWARD OF EXCELLENCE

• 1990 - Oil painting, Best of Show, "Transferring the Medicine Shield"

MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST
formerly the AUTRY MUSEUM

• 2000 - John Geraghty Award for Contribution to Western Art
• 2004 - Master of the American West Award - The Force of Nature Humbles All Men

EITELJORG MUSEUM OF
AMERICAN INDIANS AND WESTERN ART

• 2001 - Eiteljorg Award for Excellence in American Western Art

 

Read our feature article on Howard Terpning
Learn more about this featured artist in Howard Terpning's biography
Howard Terpning is often referred to as the Storyteller of the Native American People
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