This painting is thought to have been painted in about 1921 and displayed that year in Sharp's annual Cincinnati exhibition, Indian Paintings at the Hotel Gibson galleries with the title Aspens on the Divide, #35.

Aspens on the Divide; [Aspens, Taos Canon]

Record ID: 667

Date: ca. 1921

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 20 1/8 x 30 1/4 in.

Signature / Inscription: LR: J.H.SHARP. On backing board in Sharp's hand: Aspens-Taos Canon, near Divide

Owner: Stark Museum of Art, Orange, TX

Accession Number: 31.25.50

Provenance: The artist; [?]; [Jane Hiatt, La Fonda Art Gallery, Taos, New Mexico]; H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1956; H.J. Lutcher Stark Estate; present owner: Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, Orange, Texas, by bequest, 1965; accession to Stark Museum of Art, 1965

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.

Aspens on the Divide; [Aspens, Taos Canon]

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