This is a study of Sharp's beloved Blackfeet buffalo hide teepee taken from his studio window at Crow Agency. Sharp purchased this hide teepee from a Blackfeet man in 1905 and made a note about this time that he had produced over twenty studies of it. This is probably one of those early sketches. For a directly related study, see #629.

The Old Skin Tepee

Record ID: 635

Date: after 1905

Medium: oil on canvas mounted on paperboard

Dimensions: 8 5/8 x 11 7/8 in.

Signature / Inscription: LL: J.H.SHARP. Verso: The Old Skin Tepee / From my studio window, Crow Agency Mont, / J.H. Sharp

Owner: Stark Museum of Art, Orange, TX

Accession Number: 31.25.13

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.

The Old Skin Tepee

Related

The Lone Teepee (ca. 1905)

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