Big Brave
Alternate Title: Crow Chief in Full War Paint
Record ID: 623
Date: ca. 1906
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 14 1/8 x 10 1/4 in.
Signature / Inscription:
LR: J.H.SHARP. Verso on stretcher: BIG BRAVE / about 1906 / Great Warrior & Dance Chief of Black (?)
Owner: Stark Museum of Art, Orange, TX
Accession Number: 31.25.1
Provenance: The artist; [?]; C. Bland, Jamison; Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation; 1963; present owner: Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, Orange, Texas, by bequest, 1963; 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.
