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Big Brave

Sharp enjoyed making several portraits of Big Brave, an important Blackfeet dance official.  See, for example, #s 329 and 402.

Big Brave

Alternate Title: Crow Chief in Full War Paint

Record ID: 623

Date: ca. 1906

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 14 1/8 x 10 1/4 in.

Signature / Inscription:

LR: J.H.SHARP. Verso on stretcher: BIG BRAVE / about 1906 / Great Warrior & Dance Chief of Black (?)

Owner: Stark Museum of Art, Orange, TX

Accession Number: 31.25.1

Provenance: The artist; [?]; C. Bland, Jamison; Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation; 1963; present owner: Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, Orange, Texas, by bequest, 1963; accession to Stark Museum of Art, 1965

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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.