Dust of Many Pony Soldiers /The Warrior by western artist Howard Terpning

Dust of Many Pony Soldiers /The Warrior Howard Terpning.

 

Although this painting concerns a column of troops on the search for Indians, the artist has chosen to look at the situation from the point of view of three Sioux warriors watching them from afar. The grave faces of these men are a mute reflection of what they see, and what the future portends for them and their people. Their outmoded armament, old flintlock rifles, indicates that they will not be able to mount an effective defense and that the eventual outcome will be their defeat. In that sense, this work foretells the detruction of a free people's way of life. (Art of Howard Terpning - Elmer Kelton)

 

Print released 1982.