Joseph H. Henry Sharp Catalogue

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Chief Big Nose

Given the date and signature style, this would appear to be a Pueblo man, probably from Taos. However, a monotype issued around 1900 and displayed in Sheridan, WY that fall was titled Big Nose, Cheyenne Chief.  He was noted as having the last name of Mower and coming from Oklahoma, so Sharp probably posed him in Taos in 1898 as the Southern Cheyenne visited the Pueblo annually each fall.

Chief Big Nose

Alternate Title:

Big Nose, Cheyenne Chief

Record ID: 330

Date: 1898

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 14 x 10 in.

Signature / Inscription: LL: COPYRIGHT 1898 / BY / J.H.SHARP.

Owner: Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH

Accession Number: 913-O-539


Provenance:

The artist; Joseph G. Butler, Jr., Youngstown, OH; present owner by gift, 1913

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.