This sketch was made in North Africa where the Sharps traveled in 1922 after visiting Spain. Several such sketches, though not this one, were exhibited the next year in Cincinnati in an exhibition Indian Paintings and Western Landscapes and Sketches of Africa and Spain at Cincinnati's Traxel's Art Galleries in 1923.

Sidi-bou-Said (Tunisia)

Record ID: 321

Date: 1922

Medium: oil on masonite

Dimensions: 16 x 20 in.

Signature / Inscription: LR: JHSHARP

Owner: Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Norman, OK

Accession Number: 2003.001.023

Provenance: The artist; [?]; William H. Thams, Oklahoma City, OK; present owner by gift in memory of Roxanne P. Thams, 2003

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.

Sidi-bou-Said (Tunisia)

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