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The Old War Shield

In size, tone and palette as well as pose, this work is similar to Sun Down Dance, related image, #673. The model, probably Hunting Son, is the vehicle for featuring two of Sharp’s most prized Northern Plains articacts, the Crow hide shield and the Sioux feather bonnet.

The Old War Shield

Alternate Title: The Warrior

Record ID: 668

Date: ca. 1924; [ca. 1900]

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 20 1/8 x 24 1/8 in.

Signature / Inscription: LR: J.H.SHARP. On backing board in Sharp’s hand: The Old War Shield-firelight-Taos / Last Buffalo War Shield / Taos Indians had / War bonnet picked up on / Custer Battle Field next day / Now in Okla. Museum

Owner: Stark Museum of Art, Orange, TX

Accession Number: 31.25.49

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

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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.