Howard Terpning — Preparing for the Sun Dance — Signed & Numbered Print

In Preparing for the Sun Dance, Howard Terpning depicts a young Blackfeet participant being painted for a sacred ceremony. White body paint, sage and an eagle-bone whistle give the composition its ceremonial focus, while the surrounding figures convey the gravity of preparation.

Published by The Greenwich Workshop in 1987, this signed lithograph preserves one of Terpning’s intimate treatments of Blackfeet ceremonial life. Offered with the publisher’s documentation.

Details: Limited-edition lithograph on paper; signed and numbered 68/1000. Image approximately 26½ × 22¼ inches. Unframed.