There were six portraits of Flat Iron exhibited at the Cincinnati Museum in 1900 and again at the Cosmos Club in Washington, DC in 1901. This was one of those works. It was purchased by Mrs. Hearst in 1902. (sales ledgers, Sharp Papers)

A portrait in this same pose but without the hat sold to the Smithsonian's director, William Henry Holmes in 1901. Holmes later donated it to his museum. (see related image, #217)

Chief Flat Iron - Sioux

Record ID: 159

Date: ca. 1900

Medium:

oil on canvas

Dimensions:

12 x 8 in.

Signature / Inscription:

LL: J.H.SHARP / Pine Ridge S.D.

Owner: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum, Berkeley, CA

Accession Number: 17-49

Provenance:

The artist; Phoebe Hearst, San Francisco, CA, 1901; present owner by gift.

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.

Chief Flat Iron - Sioux

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Chief Flat Iron (1900)

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