Howard Terpning Wall Decorations

Wonderful first-year-of-release poster for firm movie favourite The Sound of Music. The Terpning artwork works especially well on the British landscape-oriented quad poster. Poste...

Original US Style A Film poster from the first release of the film in the US in 1962. Howard Terpning was born in Illinois. As a child he liked to draw and knew by the age of seven that he wanted to be an artist. At age 15, he became fascinated with the West and Native Americans when he spent the summer camping and fishing with a cousin near Durango, Colorado. When he turned 17, he enlisted in the Marine Corps and served from 1945 through 1946. After leaving the Marines he enrolled at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts in their two-year commercial art program. To further his study he attended the American Academy of Art in Chicago for six months where he honed his life drawing and painting skills. After art school a family friend introduced Terpning to Haddon Sundblom, a successful and highly regarded illustrator of that time. Based on the recommendation and the strength of Terpning's drawings Sundblom hired Terpning to work at his Chicago studio as an apprentice. After about a year and a half he began to work on his own commissions. In 1955, he moved to a Milwaukee studio where he stayed for three years before relocating to New York where he was hired by a major Chicago studio. By 1962, he was working as a freelance artist using an agent to facilitate the business side of his craft. As a result Terpning was able to work from his home studio eliminating the long commute into NYC. During his 25 years as an illustrator he created magazine covers, story illustrations and advertising art for publications such as Reader's Digest, Time, Newsweek, Good Housekeeping, Field & Stream, McCall's, Redbook, and Ladies' Home Journal. In addition to illustrating for magazines Terpning completed over 80 movie posters starting with The Guns of Navarone...

Original vintage movie poster for one of the classic films, Cleopatra. Fantastic design by Howard Terpning of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony admiring Cl...