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Sundown Dance and Hunting Son, Taos

This was a popular subject for Sharp in the mid-1920s. Different than the other two or three paintings of the Taos Pueblo’s Sunset Dance, this one features a bold profile portrait of Hunting Son attired in Sharp’s favorite Sioux bonnet.  The Taos Pueblo and the dance figures provide but a muted backdrop for Hunting Son. That background scene is quite similar to the others, related images, including #s 493 and 239.

Sundown Dance and Hunting Son, Taos

Record ID: 673

Date: ca. 1924

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 20 1/4 x 24 1/4 in.

Signature / Inscription: LR: J.H.SHARP. On backing board in Sharp’s hand: SUN DOWN DANCE / AND HUNTING SON – TAOS

Owner: Stark Museum of Art, Orange, TX

Accession Number: 31.25.58

Provenance: The artist; [?]; [Jane Hiatt, La Fonda Art Gallery, Taos, New Mexico]; H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1955; 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.