This is probably Sharp's painting Song to Buffalo Skull that was exhibited first at Cincinnati's Traxel Art Gallery in 1923 and then, as Hunting Song to Buffalo Skull, in the same venue the next year. It compares in setting, palette and theme to Ceremonial Song for the Return of the Buffalo, #279 and Drum Song, #382 in the 1923 exhibition.

Song to Buffalo Skull; [Two Seated Indians with Drums]

Alternate Title:

Hunting Song to Buffalo Skull; Taos Singers

Record ID: 622

Date: ca. 1923

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 22 1/4 x 27 1/8 in.

Signature / Inscription: LL: J.H.SHARP

Owner: Stark Museum of Art, Orange, TX

Accession Number: 31.25.2

Provenance: The artist; [?]; [Jane Hiatt, La Fonda Art Gallery, Taos, New Mexico]; H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1957; 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.

Song to Buffalo Skull; [Two Seated Indians with Drums]

Related

Ceremonial Song for the Return of the Buffalo (ca. 1923)

Drum Song (ca. 1923)

Cheyenne Medicine Prayer, 1904

Ceremonial Songs

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