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Chief Running Rabbit

Penciled on duster cover on verso: 1904 Chief Running Rabbit Blackfeet. Inscribed on paper attached to dust cover: Blackfeet were Sun Worshipers – In his teepee one day, we saw the priest go by – Running Rabbit said: There goes the black robe, a very fine man. They tell me there are many conflicting religions – As for me, see that sun? It brings the rains, it makes the grass grow – it keeps me warm, I feel it.

 

This painting, titled Chief Running Rabbit, was exhibited in  Boston’s St Botolph Club in 1903.

Chief Running Rabbit

Alternate Title:

Running Rabbit, Blackfoot

Record ID: 471

Date: ca. 1903; [1904]

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 18 x 14 7/8 in.

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

Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

Accession Number: 0137.423

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.