This portrait was painted in about 1900 at Pine Ridge, South Dakota and exhibited, along with two other versions, that year at the Cincinnati Museum. The next year it appeared in the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. A companion work, Walks the Country, Small Profile was purchased by Joseph Butler, Jr. and is in the collections of the Butler Institute of American Art. (#345) Another version is owned by the Hearst Museum, #153.
Walks the Country, Full Face; [Walks the Country. Sioux]
Record ID: 98
Date: ca. 1900; [ca. 1898-1913]
Medium: oil on Academy Board
Dimensions: 22 1/2 x 18 1/8 in.
Signature / Inscription: UR: WALKS THE COUNTRY. SIOUX. LR: J.H.SHARP. Pine Ridge, S.D.
Owner: The Rockwell Museum, Corning, NY
Accession Number: 78.65 F
Provenance: The artist; [?]; The Rockwell Foundation, Corning, NY; present owner by purchase
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