Crow Reservation -- Teepees and Indians (Sweat Lodge)

This painting relates directly to a handsome dusk scene titled Preparing for the Medicine Sweat, #19 and a sketch, #99.

The scene was staged just outside Sharp's Crow Agency, Montana studio to the south. The large teepee on the right was a buffalo hide teepee Sharp purchased from the Blackfeet in 1905. He used it frequently as a secondary studio and a prop.

Crow Reservation -- Teepees and Indians (Sweat Lodge)

Record ID: 322

Date: 1920

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 20 x 30 in.

Signature / Inscription: LR: JHSHARP. '20

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

Accession Number: 2004.009.011

Provenance: The artist; [?]; The Priscilla C. and Joseph N. Tate Collection; present owner by gift, 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.

Crow Reservation -- Teepees and Indians (Sweat Lodge)

Related

Preparing for the Medicine Sweat (1920)

Three Scenes (1920)

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