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The Mystery of Fire, Black Deer

This is probably a portrait of Alberto Luhan who posed for Sharp in the nude during the summer of 1915 and appeared in several larger compositions including The Old War Shield. (related image, #360)  A painting titled The Mystery of Fire was presented at the galleries of the Hotel Gibson in Cincinnati in 1919. This could be that work.

 

See also a similar study in size, subject and composition, Beside the Teepee’s Blaze. (related image, #662)

The Mystery of Fire, Black Deer

Alternate Title: Indian Firelight

Record ID: 690

Date: ca. 1915

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 16 x 20 in.

Signature / Inscription: LL: J.H.SHARP

Owner: Stark Museum of Art, Orange, TX

Accession Number: 31.25.78

Provenance: The artist; [?]; H.J. Lutcher Stark; present owner: Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, Orange, Texas, by bequest, 1999; accession to Stark Museum of Art

Related

Untitled JH Sharp artwork

The Old War Shield (ca. 1915)

Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

Untitled JH Sharp artwork

Beside the Teepee’s Blaze (ca. 1915)

Stark Museum of Art, Orange, TX

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.