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Chief Two Moons - Cheyenne

This appears to be one of five versions of portraits of Two Moons that Sharp made in 1899 and exhibited at the Cincinnati Museum in 1900 and the Cosmos Club in Washington, DC in 1901.  Two others are known to exist today. (related images, #s 336 and 441)

Chief Two Moons – Cheyenne

Alternate Title: Two Moons

Record ID: 139

Date: ca. 1899; [1902]

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 18 x 12 in.

Signature / Inscription:

LR: J.H.SHARP / LAME DEER
UR: Monogram CHIEF TWO MOONS / CHEYENNE

Owner: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum, Berkeley, CA

Accession Number: 17-30

Provenance: The artist; Phoebe Hearst, San Francisco, CA, 1901; present owner by gift, 1915

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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.