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Bull Thigh, Cheyenne; [Old Bull Thigh]

Penciled on verso: Old Bull Thigh Cheyenne.

 

Sharp started painting and exhibiting portraits of  Bull Thigh as early as 1900 in Paris. He exhibited a painting titled Head of Cheyenne at the Paris Exposition that year (whereabouts unknown). It was a profile view like this, but different.  See engraving of that version, #327a.

Bull Thigh, Cheyenne; [Old Bull Thigh]

Alternate Title:

Old Bull Thigh, Cheyenne

Record ID: 478

Date: 1904

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 20 x 14 1/4 in.

Signature / Inscription: LC: J.H.SHARP. 04

Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

Accession Number: 0137.365

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

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.