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Howard Post, Bronc Riders Under the Grand Stand, Oil on Canvas, 36" x 44"

Biography Howard Post

Known for his paintings of cattle, cowboys, rodeo arenas, and ranch life executed with an unique aerial perspective and sun-drenched hues, Howard Post is an impressionist who portrays the contemporary West in a modern fashion. Howard Post, a native Arizonan, was born and raised on a ranch near Tucson. Not surprisingly, he gravitated toward the life of a cowboy. The family ranch raised rodeo stock, and as Howard Post gained experience, he started to enter rodeo competitions. In time, he became an Arizona High School All-Round Rodeo Champion, a member of the University of Arizona rodeo team, and eventually, a competitor with the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association. After Howard Post completed bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in fine art at the University of Arizona, he taught there for two years.

Howard Post, Changing Season, Oil on Canvas, 60" x 48"

Howard Post worked as a commercial artist until 1980, when he decided to paint what he knew best, Arizona’s ranch traditions. Viewers of Howard Post’s oils or pastels respond to a bird’s-eye view of cattle clustered in a corral, cowboys perched in fence rails, or a distant ranch house. This higher perspective endows people and animals in the painting with stronger shapes and patterns. Howard Post draws from a collection of several thousand slides, from imagination, and then starts a canvas without preliminary sketches. Up to six colors might be used, painted over a dark background. His work is defined by orderly, strong shadow patterns cast by the figures of cattle, cowboys, trees, or fences.

Howard Post, Remnant of the Rains, Oil on Canvas, 52" x 42"

Howard Post’s oils and pastels have been included in numerous exhibitions throughout the United States. Many of his paintings are represented in public, corporate, and private collections.

Selected Exhibitions

National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, OK (2008)

Booth Western Art Museum "21st Century Regionalists: Art of the New West" Atlanta, GA (2007-8)

Santa Lucia Preserve, Invitational En Plein Air, Carmel, CA (2007)

Coors Western Art Exhibit, Denver CO (2007)

Arizona: A Millennium of Arizona Art, Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery, Tucson, AZ (2007)

Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis (1992)

Museum of History and Art, Salt Lake City (1991)

Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis (1990)

Arizona Biennial, Tucson Museum of Art (1988)

Tampa Museum of Art (1986)

Nabisco Invitational, East Hanover, N.J. (1984)

Kimball Art Center, Park City, Utah (1984)

Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff (1984)

University of North Dakota, Touring Exhibition (1982)

Arizona Biennial, Tucson Museum of Art (1982)

Midland Museum, Midland, Texas (1981)

Partial List of Collectors

AT&T World Headquarters, Morristown, N.J.

The Smithsonian Institute

U.S. Postal Service, Washington, D.C.

United Airlines, Denver, Colorado

Standard Oil of Ohio, Houston, Texas

Midland Museum, Midland, Texas

Nabisco Brands, East Hanover, N.J.

National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, OK

Dean Witter Co., New York

Museum of History and Art, Salt Lake City

Tampa Museum of Art

Mesa Southwest Museum

Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis

The Whitney Buffalo Bill Museum of Western Art, Cody, Wyoming

The Forbes Foundation, New York

Tucson Museum of Art

Denver Art Museum

Collector of the American Ambassador to the Netherlands

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Howard Post, Bend in the River, Oil on Canvas, 50" x 40"