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General Crook - Arapaho; [General Crook]

Penciled on cardboard backing: 1900 to 1903-4 ‘General Crook’ – Arapaho Named after fighting General Crook, U.S.A. Hereditary Chief – his father, Old Chief Sharp Nose, noted thru out the northwest.

 

Sharp is thought to have visited the Arapaho for the first time in 1904.

 

Sharp appears to have painted another portrait of General Crook. His sales ledgers mention a portrait of this sitter selling to King Gillette of Brookline, MA in March of 1911, along with eleven others.

General Crook – Arapaho; [General Crook]

Alternate Title:

General Crook, Arapaho

Record ID: 405

Date: ca. 1904

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 19 3/4 x 13 3/4 in.

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

Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

Accession Number: 0137.505

Provenance: The artist; Thomas Gilcrease, Tulsa, OK; The Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, 1955; present owner by gift

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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.