This is probably the painting, Red Stone Pipe, Sharp exhibited in Indian Paintings at The Schroeder Galleries in Pasadena in February 1927. Another related painting titled Jerry with the Redstone Pipe (#619) was presented in November that year in an exhibition titled Indian and Other Paintings at the Traxel Art Galleries in Cincinnati. According to Sharp's sales ledgers from 1928, a painting titled John & Jerry - Chant to the Pipe sold to a Tulsa individual, H. C. G. Tyrrell. (Sharp Papers)

Red Stone Pipe; [Chant to the Redstone Pipe]

Alternate Title:

John & Jerry - Chant to Pipe

Record ID: 504

Date: ca. 1926; [early 20th century]

Medium: oil on linen

Dimensions: 20 1/4 x 16 1/8 in.

Signature / Inscription:

LR: JHSHARP

Inscribed on verso: "Fire light and twilight -- interior of lodge or tepee Indian painted elk skin back of figures, war bonnet was in Custer battle."

Owner: Museum of the Southwest, Midland, TX

Accession Number: 1980.009.014

Provenance:

The artist; H. C. G. Tyrrell, Tulsa, OK, 1928; [?]; Fred T. and Novadean Hogan; present owner by gift, 1980

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.

Red Stone Pipe; [Chant to the Redstone Pipe]

Related

Ernest Blumenschein, Star Road and White Sun (1920)

Jerry; [Jerry Elkfoot]

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