Penciled on verso UC and C: CRUCITA / TAOS INDIAN GIRL

This portrait looks much more like Crucita's daughter, Leaf Down. See, for example, a similar portrait such as Leaf Down, ca. 1928, #212 from the Denver Art Museum collection.

Leaf Down?; [Crucita, Taos Indian Girl]

Record ID: 527

Date: ca. 1928

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 18 1/16 x 12 1/8 in.

Signature / Inscription: LL: J.H.SHARP.

Owner: Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

Accession Number: 1986.288

Provenance: The artist; [?]; Dr. Edgar and Annie Ray Poth; present owner by gift, 1986

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.

Leaf Down?; [Crucita, Taos Indian Girl]

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