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Rising Fire

Rising Fire was a Cheyenne man whom Sharp painted at least twice in about 1900. Another portrait of Rising Fire belongs to the Phoebe Hearst Museum. (see related image, #142) One of the two paintings was exhibited in Sharp’s Special Exhibition of Indian Portraits at the Cincinnati Museum in 1900.

Rising Fire

Record ID: 534

Date: ca. 1900; [1897-1898]

Medium: oil

Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

Accession Number: 0136.434

Provenance: The artist; [?]; present owner by gift

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Untitled JH Sharp artwork

Rising Fire—Cheyenne (ca. 1900)

Phoebe A. Hearst Museum, Berkeley, CA

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.