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Rain in the Face, Sioux; [Rain in the Face]

In the Gilcrease Foundation's catalogue for Sharp's 1949 retrospective exhibition, there were two versions of Rain in the Face. A note on one of them quoted Sharp as saying that the subject was "A noted Hunkpapa Sioux warrior and chief and a leading participant in the Custer Massacre. Rain in the Face was born in 1835 and died in 1905."

 

A second portrait of this Sioux hero is also in the Gilcrease Museum collection. (see related image, #450)

Rain in the Face, Sioux; [Rain in the Face]

Record ID: 451

Date: ca. 1903; [1900]

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 20 1/4 x 14 1/4 in.

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

Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

Accession Number: 0137.483

Provenance:

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

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Rain in the Face (ca. 1902)

Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

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.