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Gift Dance Drummers (Pueblo Indians Entertaining Cheyennes); [The Gift Dance Drummers, Taos]

Penciled on dust cover: "The Gift Dance Drummers Taos- J.H.Sharp. Every year during Sept. Fiesta, Indians from Okla, Apaches & Pueblos visit- They chant songs of welcome squaws give food and others blankets, clothing, horses, silver & etc. The northern Indians have these ceremonies also-."

 

This painting was exhibited with the title, Gift Dance Drummers (Pueblo Indians Entertaining Cheyennes), at the Traxel Art Galleries in December, 1929 and illustrated on the catalogue’s cover and in the Cincinnati Enquirer (12/1/1929). A small oil study of the exact landscape view in this work exists today with the title South Pueblo Taos, New Mexico. (related image, #385a)

Gift Dance Drummers (Pueblo Indians Entertaining Cheyennes); [The Gift Dance Drummers, Taos]

Record ID: 385

Date: ca. 1929; [1910]

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 36 x 41 1/2 in.

Signature / Inscription: LR: J.H.SHARP

Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

Accession Number: 0137.334

Provenance:

The artist; Thomas Gilcrease, Tulsa, OK; The Thomas Gilcrease Foundation; present owner by gift, 1955

Related

Untitled JH Sharp artwork

South Pueblo Taos, New Mexico, ca. 1928

Private Collection, image courtesy of AskArt

Untitled JH Sharp artwork

The Gift Dance Drummers

The Rockwell Museum, Corning, NY

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.