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On the Little Bighorn

This painting appears to be a late work given its soft contours, invented subject matter and weak deliniation of form.  The primary Indian figure in the composition seems to be launching his canoe into a lake, not the Little Big Horn River, so the title does not conform with the subject.  The composition and style of this oil conforms with other fanciful late paintings by Sharp like Apache Ambush - Arizona (related image, #373)

 

In 1948, Sharp reworked an old canvas of a similar theme, titled it Night Gigging and sold it to Thomas Gilcrease.  (see related image, #386)

On the Little Bighorn

Record ID: 507

Date: ca. 1946

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 18 3/16 x 25 1/8 in.

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

Owner: Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

Accession Number: 1993.034.043


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.