Penciled on backing: Crow Burial Bluffs of the Little Big Horn Near Custer Battlefield Montana J.H. Sharp. Composition for large picture – never painted!
This is a small signed sketch that associates with a larger, unsigned study, The Burial, neither of which resulted in a finished painting. Another larger, more finished oil title simply The Burial,, however, is somewhat similar. (see related image, #32)
Crow Burial
Record ID: 397
Date: ca. 1908; [1890]
Medium: oil on board
Dimensions: 13 1/4 x 15 3/4 in.
Signature / Inscription: LR: J.H.SHARP.
Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK
Accession Number: 0136.439
Provenance: The artist; Thomas Gilcrease, Tulsa, OK; The Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, 1955; present owner by gift
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