Collection: Howard Post

Howard Post 

A third-generation Arizonian, Howard Post was born and continues to reside in Tucson. He grew up on a small ranch and earned both Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees from the University of Arizona. For many years, Post worked as a graphic designer and illustrator. Following teaching appointments at both the University of Arizona and Arizona State University, he transitioned to painting full-time.

Post has received numerous awards throughout his career, including the Victor Higgins Award (2012) and the Artist of Distinction Award (2017) at Quest for the West at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indianapolis; the Gold Medal for Painting (2012) at The West Select: A Western Art Invitational Sale and Exhibition at the Phoenix Art Museum; Best of Show (2010) at the Coors Western Art Exhibit & Sale in Denver; and the Great American Cowboy Award (2010) at the Prix de West Invitational at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. In 2018, his one-man exhibition The West Observed: The Art of Howard Post was held at the Tucson Museum of Art and subsequently traveled to the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Georgia, and the Desert Caballeros Museum in Wickenburg, Arizona.

Post’s work is held in prominent collections, including the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming; Denver Art Museum; Briscoe Western Art Museum; National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum; Phoenix Art Museum; and Tucson Museum of Art. His paintings have been featured in Art News, Art of the West, Southwest Art, Western Art Collector, and Western Art & Architecture.