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Chief Flat Iron

This portrait may have been exhibited at The Closson Galleries, Cincinnati in  1908, as Chief Flat Iron – Sioux, and  in The John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, that same year as well as at the St. Louis Museum of Fine Arts  and then The Fine Arts Institute of Kansas City in 1909.  It may have concluded its travels in 1912 at the University Club in Cincinnati and four years later again at the Hotel Gibson before being acquired by Victor Evans.

 

Chief Flat Iron

Alternate Title:

Chief Iron Tail, Sioux

Record ID: 208

Date: 1905

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 18 x 12 1/4 in.

Signature / Inscription: LL: J.H.SHARP / 05

Owner: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Accession Number: 1985.66.362.134

Provenance: The artist; [?]; Victor Justice Evans; present owner by bequest

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.