Given the velvety quality of forms in this landscape, it seems to coincide with other works from the late 1920s. Sharp's major painting for the year 1928, Singers of the Night - Taos Pueblo (#62) captured the same ephemeral nuances as does this elegant work. Perhaps they are related. In Sharp's annual exhibition in 1928 he presented a work titled simply Twilight, which may be this canvas.

Twilight?; [Twilight in the Mountains]

Record ID: 678

Date: ca. 1928?

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 24 1/4 x 20 1/8 in.

Signature / Inscription: LR: J.H.SHARP. On backing board in Sharp's hand: TWILIGHT IN THE MOUNTAINS / ASPEN-COTTONWOOD-PINES

Owner: Stark Museum of Art, Orange, TX

Accession Number: 31.25.61

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.

Twilight?; [Twilight in the Mountains]

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