Joseph H. Henry Sharp Catalogue

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Crow Burial

Penciled on backing: Crow Burial Bluffs of the Little Big Horn Near Custer Battlefield Montana J.H. Sharp. Composition for large picture - never painted!

 

This is a small signed sketch that associates with a larger, unsigned study, The Burial, neither of which resulted in a finished painting. Another larger, more finished oil title simply The Burial,, however, is somewhat similar. (see related image, #32)

Crow Burial

Record ID: 397

Date: ca. 1908; [1890]

Medium: oil on board

Dimensions: 13 1/4 x 15 3/4 in.

Signature / Inscription: LR: J.H.SHARP.

Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

Accession Number: 0136.439


Provenance: The artist; Thomas Gilcrease, Tulsa, OK; The Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, 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.