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Custer Battlefield

Sharp began painting landscapes in and around Crow Agency as early as 1906. Models were scarce, he said, so he supplemented his portrait work with views of the area.  He was especially attracted to views of the site of the Battle of the Little Bighorn.  This is one of those landscapes.

 

This appears to be a rather late view of the battlefield and it is especially distinctive because it contains no evidence of human presence.  He generally incorporated teepees in such a vista, as seen in a related work, Winter Camp on the Little Big Horn,  #356.

Custer Battlefield

Record ID: 733

Date: ca. 1919

Medium:

oil on canvas

Signature / Inscription: LR: J.H.SHARP.

Owner: Billings Public Library, Billings, MT

Accession Number: 1998.7


Provenance: The artist; [?]; present owner

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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.