Green Corn Dance - Taos; [Green Corn Dance]

Penciled UC on dust cover: Green Corn Dance - Taos. Before the Architecture was walled up - 30 years ago. Home of Govr Manuel Castellano. Penciled on paper on verso: The Rhythm of the Dance. J.H. Sharp. Taos. Inscribed in LR of frame on verso: This frame property of J.H. Sharp

Sharp's sales ledgers indicate that Gilcrease purchased this work in September 1949. (Sharp Papers) This is said to be Sharp's last painting. (Fenn, 2007, 277)

Green Corn Dance - Taos; [Green Corn Dance]

Alternate Title:

The Rhythm of the Dance

Record ID: 408

Date: 1949

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 32 5/8 x 44 5/8 in.

Signature / Inscription:

LR: J.H.SHARP. 1949

Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

Accession Number: 0137.303

Provenance:

The artist; Thomas Gilcrease, Tulsa, OK, 1949; The Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, 1955; present owner by gift

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.

Green Corn Dance - Taos; [Green Corn Dance]

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