Chiz-Chille - Navajo Boy; [Chiz Chile, Navajo]

Penciled on verso: Chiz Chile - Navajo Boy - The most beautiful face I have / ever painted - / Painted at Gallup, Nmex.- / J.H.Sharp.

Sharp painted two other known versions of this boy and sold one to Joseph Butler in 1906 (later deaccessioned) and the other to Phoebe Hearst in 1904. (related image, #193) This painting had its debut in New York at the Fishel, Adler & Schwartz Galleries in late 1906.

Chiz-Chille - Navajo Boy; [Chiz Chile, Navajo]

Record ID: 518

Date: 1904

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 13 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.

Signature / Inscription: LR: J.H.SHARP / 1904

Owner: Forsyth Galleries, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

Accession Number: 988.001.0195

Provenance: The artist; [?]; Bill & Irma Runyon; Texas A&M Foundation; present owner

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.

Chiz-Chille - Navajo Boy; [Chiz Chile, Navajo]

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