The inscription on this painting is revealing. He called this "October Camp - Crow Reservation" and followed that title with "#21." This would suggest how many of these views from his Crow Agency studio window he painted. These all tend to focus on the Blackfeet teepee that Sharp purchased in the summer of 1905 in northern Montana.

October Camp—Crow Reservation

Alternate Title: Montana Tepees

Record ID: 671

Date: 1905-1906

Medium: oil on canvas

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

Signature / Inscription: LR: J.H.SHARP. Verso: Oct Camp / Crow Res / #21

Owner: Stark Museum of Art, Orange, TX

Accession Number: 31.25.54

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.

October Camp—Crow Reservation

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