A painting of Big Moon's lodge appears in Medicine Dance Lodge. (related image, #53) He was a great friend of the photographer Walter McClintock and a member of the Blackfeet tribal police.

Big Moon

Alternate Title:

Jack Big Moon, Blackfoot

Record ID: 543

Date: 1905

Medium: oil

Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

Accession Number: 0137.467

Provenance: The artist; [?]; present owner by gift

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.

Big Moon

Related

Medicine Dance Lodges (ca. 1930)

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