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Chief Little Wolf - Cheyenne

This portrait of the elder Little Wolf was illustrated in Leslie’s Weekly, 1/3/07, erroneously credited to the Joseph Butler collection. It was one of two portraits (along with #140a) that were first shown at the Cincinnati Museum in 1900.

Chief Little Wolf – Cheyenne

Alternate Title:

Chief Little Wolf, considered the greatest fighter and general of all the Indians

Record ID: 140

Date: 1899

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions:

18 x 12 in.

Signature / Inscription:

LR: J.H.SHARP. / LAME DEER / MT
UR: CHIEF LITTLE WOLF / CHEYENNE

Owner: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum, Berkeley, CA

Accession Number: 17-31

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

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Little Wolf – Cheyenne (1899)

Phoebe A. Hearst Museum, Berkeley, CA

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.