Hand, as a Government scout, was famous for surviving the massacre of Wounded Knee in 1890.

This portrait appears to be a companion work to one painted about 1900 and sold to Phoebe Hearst (related image, # 156). Another slightly different view went to the Smithsonian Institution, #243. These three were a part of a set of four portraits of this Sioux man in Sharp's Cincinnati Museum exhibition of 1900.

Hand, Sioux; [Hand]

Record ID: 409

Date: 1900

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 15 7/8 x 11 3/4 in.

Signature / Inscription:

LL: J.H.SHARP. / PINE RIDGE, 1900. UR: HAND / SIOUX.

Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

Accession Number: 0137.429

Provenance:

The artist; [?]; Dr. Philip G. Cole, Tarrytown, NY; Thomas Gilcrease, Tulsa, OK, 1947; 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.

Hand, Sioux; [Hand]

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