“The best friendships can and will endure,” explains artist James C. Christensen. “My wife has a life-long friend that lives far away. Their relationship is more like that of sisters, although possibly even stronger. They have been friends for decades. Over that period of time they have had the chance to share all the joys life has presented them. They have also looked to and supported each other through hardship, distance and change. Separately, they have grown but never have they grown apart. The physical distance between them is overcome by an unseen connection. These women are loving friends who lightly grasp the tie that binds them together.”

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“This painting contains everything I like about symbolic aviation art. It’s full of symbolism as two SBD-3s—S-9 and S-11 of VS-5—fly from the USS Yorktown aircraft carrier against the dark clouds of war and a rising sun, the symbol of the Japanese empire. In this case, the sun is symbolic of hope and the dawn of a new day as the tide turns in the Pacific at the Battle of Midway in June of 1942.”

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A New York Times article on Western art and the annual Coeur d’Alene Art Auction in 2007 had this to say about the artist: “Howard Terpning just may be the most successful living American artist you’ve never heard of.” The auctioneer Peter Stremmel concurred. “Everyone is after Terpning’s work. They see him as the next Russell or Remington,” (referring to Charles Russell and Frederic Remington, the two most famous Western art painters from the end of the 19th century). Several of Terpning’s paintings had already broken the million dollar mark and his record sale price has climbed since to $1,456,000. Additionally, it’s getting harder to find a serious art collector who doesn’t recognize his name.

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The Patient Wife
by William S. Phillips
limited to 100 s/n.
12″w x 9″h.
$175.00

A Heritage Gallery exclusive Greenwich Workshop Fine Art Giclée Canvas