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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.

Education
BFA, MFA, University of Arizona

Teaching Positions

• 1980 Arizona State University
  
• 1979 Pima Community College
  
• 1975 University of Arizona

Selected Exhibitions and Awards

• October - November 2011, The West Select, Phoenix Art Museum, AZ
• Victor Higgins Work of Distinction Award, Quest for the West, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, IN (2010)
• Express Ranch Great American Cowboy Award, Prix de West, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, OK (2010)
• "San Tan Valley" chosen by the Western Art Association at the West Select to be in the Phoenix Art Museum permanent collection (2010)
• The Rockwell Museum of Western Art, (May 2010)
• Best of Show, Coors Art Show (2010)
• Roping Contest, Las Vegas, NV (2009)
• Palette Award, 4th Annual Quest for the West Art Show and Sale, Eiteljorg Museum, IN (2009)
• 28th Annual Buffalo Bill Art Show and Sale, Cody, WY (2009)
• 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)

Selected Publications

• Arizona Arts and Lifestyles, March 1985
  
• Southwest Profile, February 1987
  
• State of the Arts (Phoenix) April 1987
  
• Horizon, Nov/Dec 1988
  
• Artspeak (New York) October 1988
  
• Aspen, Winter 1989
  
• Scottsdale, Winter 1989
  
• Arizona Highways, July 1989
  
• Ski, December 1990
  
• Southwest Art, December 1992
  
• Art of the West, Sept/Oct 1997
  
• The Artist and the American Landscape
  
• Pub. First Glance Books 1998
  
• Equine Images, Feb/Mar 1999
  
• U.S. Art, October 2000
  
• Phoenix Home and Garden Magazine 2005
  
• Canyon Road Arts 2006
  
• ArtBook of the New West 2006
  
• Western Art Collector 2008 and 2009

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
• Phoenix Art Museum

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