Mourning Eagle, Blackfoot; [Chief Mourning Eagle]

UL in red paint: MOURNING EAGLE. UR in red paint: BLACKFOOT. In pencil on dust cover: "Chief Mourning Eagle Blk'ft - 1900-5. Painted him several times, different years." Sharp may be referring to another profile portrait of Chief Mourning Eagle (related image 427a?).

Thomas Gilcrease purchased two portraits of this man. See related image, #540 for the other work.

Mourning Eagle, Blackfoot; [Chief Mourning Eagle]

Record ID: 427

Date: ca. 1903; [1900]

Medium: oil on canvas

Signature / Inscription:

LR: J.H.SHARP.; UL: MOURNING EAGLE; UR; BLACKFOOT

Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

Accession Number: 0137.373

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

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.

Mourning Eagle, Blackfoot; [Chief Mourning Eagle]

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