It is difficult to say what type of teepees are pictured in this work, but probably Crow. This work seems to feature Sharp's Blackfeet hide teepee in the foreground and a cottonwood grove that were visible from his Crow Agency studion window. It resembles another Crow teepee study made around 1916, #558.

Summer Camp Life

Alternate Title: Summer Camp Light

Record ID: 631

Date: ca. 1916

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 16 1/8 x 20 1/4 in.

Signature / Inscription: LR: J.H.SHARP. On backing board in Sharp's hand: SUMMER CAMP LIFE

Owner: Stark Museum of Art, Orange, TX

Accession Number: 31.25.9

Provenance: The artist; [?]; [Jane Hiatt, La Fonda Art Gallery, Taos, New Mexico]; H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1956; present owner: Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, Orange, Texas, by bequest, 1965; accession to Stark Museum of Art, 1965

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.

Summer Camp Life

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Crow Lodges (ca. 1916)

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