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A Gift For Her Brave

When this painting was illustrated in the New York Herald in December, 1906, it was noted that Sharp had copyrighted it that year. He exhibited it at the Fishel, Adler & Schwartz Galleries in New York that month. He asked a price of $1,500 for the canvas, along with companion  work, The Death Spirit. (#512) Only one other canvas, The Drummers, was priced higher, at $1,800.

 

Sharp was still trying to sell the painting a decade later. It appeared in a sale of Indian and Western Paintings at Cincinnati's Gibson Hotel in January, 1916.

 

Sharp had a photomechanical print made of this work which he copyrighted in 1906. Sample in Stark Museum of Art collection.

A Gift For Her Brave

Record ID: 79

Date: ca. 1906; [1900]

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 32 3/8 x 38 3/4 in.

Signature / Inscription:

LR: COPYRIGHT BY J.H.SHARP."
Inscribed on card on verso: A----- or Her Brave

Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

Accession Number: 0137.331


Provenance:

The artist; [?]; Dr. Philip G. Cole, Tarrytown, New York; Thomas Gilcrease, Tulsa, OK, 1947; The Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, Tulsa, OK, 1955; present owner by gift

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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.