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Big Beaver, Blackfoot; [Big Beaver]

Penciled on cardboard backing: Big Beaver - Blackfeet - 1898-1900 Blackfeet not all warriors except with adjoining tribes but many men great horse raiders - going as far as  Crow Reservation.

 

According to extant exhibition records, Sharp painted among the Big Beaver family around 1905.  This would conform with the painting's style and the signature type.

 

 

Big Beaver, Blackfoot; [Big Beaver]

Record ID: 456

Date: ca. 1905; [1898-1900]

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 20 3/4 x 14 3/4 in.

Signature / Inscription: LL: J.H.SHARP.

Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

Accession Number: 0137.490

Provenance:

The artist; [?]; Dr. Philip G. Cole, Tarrytown, NY; Thomas Gilcrease, Tulsa, OK, 1947; The Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, Tulsa, OK; present owner by gift 1955

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.