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Sketch for The Death Spirit

This is one of the studies Sharp made  in a neighbor's teepee in about 1905 for the large finished work, The Death Spirit, # 512.

Sketch for The Death Spirit

Alternate Title: Mourning the Spirit

Record ID: 621

Date: ca. 1905

Medium: oil on paperboard

Dimensions: 6 x 9 in.

Signature / Inscription: LR: J.H.SHARP. Verso: original sketch for / The Death-Spirit. / J.H. Sharp. Verso on frame: original sketch of "Mourning of Spirit" Sharp $150

Owner: Stark Museum of Art, Orange, TX

Accession Number: 31.25.3

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