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Squaws Preparing Sweat Teepee; [Preparing for the Medicine Sweat]

It is thought that this painting is one titled Squaws Preparing Sweat Teepee that was presented in the Hotel Gibson galleries in the exhibition Indian Paintings in 1920 in Cincinnati.  

Squaws Preparing Sweat Teepee; [Preparing for the Medicine Sweat]

Record ID: 19

Date: 1920; [ca. 1922]

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 16 x 19 7/8 in.

Signature / Inscription: LR: J H SHARP

Owner: Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, WY

Accession Number: 5.74

Provenance:

The artist; [Cyrus Boutwell, Denver, CO, 1922] ; Charles Dean Cook, Denver, CO; Mrs. C.D. Cook, Denver, CO;  present owner by gift, 1974

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Created concurrently with Peter Hassrick's 2018 Whitney West publication The Life & Art of Joseph Henry Sharp, this online catalogue highlights more than 700 works by J.H. Sharp that are held in public collections.