Be one of the select few to own “Howard Terpning: A Tribute to the Plains People” The Collector’s Edition. This autographed and numbered book comes with matching numbers to the print. The book is paired with The Greenwich Workshop Fine Art Edition of the award-winning “Traders Among the Crow.” This set includes a complimentary Blu Ray of the new documentary “Howard Terpning: Portrait of a Storyteller.”

A Special Matching-Number Set

“Traders Among the Crow” received the Thomas Moran Memorial Award for Exceptional Artistic Merit when it was unveiled at the 2012 Masters of the American West Exhibition. Not only did the painting hang in the Tribute retrospective in the spring, 2012, but its creation is the centerpiece of new documentary on Howard’s life.

The period in this scene is 1848 1850, explains Howard. These free traders have left the large fur companies and are working on their own. They have entered the edge of a Crow camp with many trade goods to entice the inhab-itants to exchange buffalo robes for gun powder, lead, knives, axes, blankets, tobacco and the various other items displayed on the ground. They use a wagon to carry their goods and perhaps for transportation because the man with the glengarry hat and a cane has an injured leg. (Wagons were used on the Santa Fe Trail as early as 1821 so by the late 1840s they could be found in many out of the way places throughout the Plains.) Howard made the group small to give the scene a sense of intimacy. Of course, there is no telling how many people are surrounding the group pictured.