Local Physician Combines Love Of Art

With The Fight Against Breast Cancer

SOUTHBURY — Collectors and art lovers will converge on Southbury for two days in October to revel in a Southbury physician’s private collection of fine art editions of the art of Howard Terpning.

Dr Mary Miller, a well-known Southbury physician, has decided to offer her lifetime collection of many rare, sold out and hard to find collectible pieces of fine limited edition artwork from Howard Terpning to benefit local hospitals and cancer treatment centers in their fight for breast cancer awareness. In one location, at one time, the rare and highly collectible pieces of fine limited edition artwork by Mr Terpning will be available to view and purchase.

Hospitals and regional cancer centers who are participating include New Milford, St. Mary’s and Waterbury Hospitals as well as the Praxair Regional  Cancer Center in Danbury and Leever Regional Breast Cancer Center in Waterbury. Proceeds will benefit the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.

The collection will be on view at Center Firehouse, 461 Main Street (Route 6) in Southbury, on Saturday and Sunday, October 15-16, from 10 am to 5 pm each day.

“My inspiration to stage this art retrospective and breast cancer benefit is my desire to share with the public my love for Native American art by Howard Terpning and my personal commitment to help to increase breast cancer awareness and fight to detect breast cancer in it earliest stage,” said Dr Miller.

Dr Miller was a registered nurse who went back to medical school in later life and subsequently earned her doctorate in medicine. She is board certified in internal medicine and practices in Southbury.

Consistent with her belief in the interconnectedness of body, mind and spirit as integral to achieving optimal health, Dr Miller became one of the first doctors to be board certified in Holistic Medicine. She has been adopted by an Oneida family in the Wolf Clan of the Iroquois Confederacy.

Howard Terpning, the “Storyteller of the Native American,” is passionate about his subject matter.

“The American Indian fascinates me; I could paint two lifetimes without running out of subject matter,” the artist has said. “I think it’s important to tell the story of the Plains Indians because their history is our history … part of our heritage. The history of the West is the only history America has that is uniquely our own.”

Greenwich Workshop artist Howard Terpning is the most lauded and highly collected painter of Western art. He has been honored with countless awards from the Cowboy Artist of America, and also the Hubbard Art Award for Excellence, the National Academy of Western Art’s Prix de West and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Autry National Center’s Museum of the American West.

Mr Terpning’s original oil painting “The Force of Nature Humbles All Men” was recently added to the permanent collection of the Museum of the American West.

The Greenwich Workshop is a leading provider of limited edition fine art prints and canvases, fine art gifts and books. The Greenwich Workshop represents more than 50 leading artists through its authorized network of more than 1,200 art and framing retailers located throughout North America.

For additional information contact Megan Jones at 264-0497.