This oil is thought to be the work, titled Sundown Medicine Sweat, that Sharp featured in his annual late autumn exhibition at Cincinnati's Traxel Art Galleries in 1927. The show was titled Indian and Other Paintings.

Sundown Medicine Sweat; [Sundown Medicine Sweat on Little Big Horn, Montana]

Record ID: 63

Date: ca. 1927; [1900]

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25 3/4 x 35 3/4 in.

Signature / Inscription:

LR: JHSHARP.

Inscribed on verso: "Sundown Medicine Sweat-on Little Big Horn, Montana". Inscribed on right stretcher bar: "1/2 mile from Battlefield-Cole 550"

Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

Accession Number: 0137.319

Provenance:

The artist; Thomas Gilcrease, Tulsa, OK; The Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, Tulsa, OK, 1955; 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.

Sundown Medicine Sweat; [Sundown Medicine Sweat on Little Big Horn, Montana]

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