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Burial of a Crow Chief

In a note to Frank Phillips in about 1940, Sharp described this work: "The Indian buries his dead upon some high elevation, because it is a nearer approach to the spirit world. They bury on scaffolds and in trees that in some mute, sorrowful way they may still hold communion with their loved and their lost. They bury with their dead all of the belongings of the deceased." (Woolaroc archives)

Burial of a Crow Chief

Record ID: 515

Date: ca. 1910

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 16 x 19 in.

Signature / Inscription: LR: J.H SHARP

Owner: Woolaroc Museum & Wildlife Preserve, Bartlesville, OK

Accession Number: GRA-132

Provenance:

The artist; Frank Phillips, Bartlesville, OK, 1939; 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.