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The Drummers; [The Drummers - Crow - A Pause in the Dance]

This painting was offered for sale several times between 1906 and 1916. It seems to have first appeared at the Fishel, Adler & Schwartz Galleries in New York under the title of The Drummers. He priced the large work at $1,800. Later, he showed it at the St. Louis Museum of Fine Arts in a 1908 exhibition A Collection of Paintings Depicting the American Indian. Four years later, Sharp showed the work at the University Club in Cincinnati in An Exhibition of Pictures of the West and again in 1916 at Cincinnati’s Hotel Gibson in Indian & Wester Paintings. Its title then was The Drummers – A Pause in the Dance.

 

Sharp had a photomechanical print made of this work in 1906. (sample in Stark Museum of Art collection) The painting was illustrated in Leslie’s Weekly, January 3, 1907 as The Drummers – A Pause in the Dance.

The Drummers; [The Drummers – Crow – A Pause in the Dance]

Alternate Title:

Drummers for the Dance – Crow; The Dance Drummers; The Drummers – A Pause in the Dance

Record ID: 389

Date: 1906

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 35 3/4 x 45 11/16 in.

Signature / Inscription:

LR: COPYRIGHT / BY / J.H.SHARP. 06. Penciled on verso: The Drummers – Crow – A Pause in the Dance
 

Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

Accession Number: 0137.322

Provenance:

The artist; Thomas Gilcrease, Tulsa, OK, 1946; The Thomas Gilcrease Foundation; 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.