According to Sharp's sales ledgers, this profile portrait was sold to Mrs. Hearst in September 1902. (Sharp Papers) Another full face version of Lady Pretty Blanket was produced perhaps a little later and was widely exhibited. (see related image, #583)

Lady Pretty Blanket - Blackfoot

Record ID: 204

Date: 1902

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions:

13 3/4 x 9 3/4 in.

Signature / Inscription:

LR: J.H.SHARP. 1902. UL: LADY PRETTY BLANKET. UR: BLACKFOOT

Owner: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum, Berkeley, CA

Accession Number: 17-202

Provenance:

The artist; Phoebe Hearst, San Francisco, CA, 1904; 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.

Lady Pretty Blanket - Blackfoot

Related

Lady Pretty Blanket (ca. 1905)

Lady Pretty Blanket - Blackfoot; [Lady Pretty Blanket]

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