San Tan Valley (Valle San Tan)

Howard Post, American, born 1948

2010

oil on canvas

Museum purchase with funds provided by Western Art Associates (West Select 2010)

2010.254

© Phoenix Art Museum. All rights reserved. Photo by Ken Howie.

American and Western American

Yes

North Wing, Second Floor, Western American

Favoring an overhead perspective in his paintings of rodeos and corrals, the canvases of Howard Post have a strong sense of design and color. The artist’s father was a cowboy, and his son competed in rodeos. When he was growing up, it was his job “to patch the broken corrals and fences. I like the abstract patterning that happened.” As he travels, the artist photographs scenes whose patterns intrigue him but his “ranchscapes” are more interpretations than literal renditions.