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Aspens—Twining

This brilliant aspen-filled landscape appears to be a plein air study that relates to a larger work, Morning in the Aspen Forest,  painted in 1935 and exhibited at the Kreimer & Brother Co. galleries in Cincinnati that fall. (see related image, #24) Aspens-Twining relates even more directly to a work of the same size but with an Indian figure included, John in the Aspens, #693.

Aspens—Twining

Alternate Title: Study for Great Mystery

Record ID: 630

Date: ca. 1935

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 20 1/4 x 16 1/4 in.

Signature / Inscription: LR: J.H.SHARP. On backing board in Sharp's hand: Aspens-Twining / (Study for Great Mystery). On stretcher: Resting in the Arroyo

Owner: Stark Museum of Art, Orange, TX

Accession Number: 31.25.10

Provenance: The artist; [?]; [Jane Hiatt, La Fonda Art Gallery, Taos, New Mexico]; H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1956; present owner: Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, Orange, Texas, by bequest, 1965; accession to Stark Museum of Art, 1965

Related

Untitled JH Sharp artwork

Morning in the Aspen Forest (1935)

Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

Untitled JH Sharp artwork

John in the Aspen (1935)

Tucson Museum of Art, Tcuson, AZ

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.