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The Gift Dance Drummers

This version of The Gift Dance Drummers was first shown in January 1916 at an exhibition at the Hotel Gibson in Cincinnati.  In the catalogue brochure for the show, titled Catalogue of Indian and Western Paintings, it appeared as the first listing, suggesting that Sharp probably considered it the best work in the show. Listed simply as Dance Drummers, this work was offered at The Schroeder Galleries in Pasadena in early 1927.

 

It is thought that this painting, titled Gift Dance Drummers - Twilight, sold to C. R. Morley of Mentor, OH in 1927 along with another oil in the Rockwell Museum collection, John & Buffalo Skull, # 97. The combined sale amounted to $1,000.  (sales ledgers for April, 1929, Sharp Papers)

 

The Gift Dance Drummers

Alternate Title:

Gift Dance Drummers - Twilight; The Drummers or Dance Drummers

Record ID: 94

Date: ca. 1915; [1920]

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 29 1/2 x 39 1/2 in.

Signature / Inscription: LR: JHSHARP

Owner: The Rockwell Museum, Corning, NY

Accession Number: 78.61 F

Provenance:

The artist; C. R. Morley, Mentor, OH, 1929; [?]; The Rockwell Foundation, Corning, NY; present owner by purchase

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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.