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Sweet Williams

This is a unique example of Sharp painting this type of flower. No others are known and no exhibition records of this work’s public display are extant.  See Minckler, 2010, 175.

Sweet Williams

Record ID: 637

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25 1/4 x 30 1/4 in.

Signature / Inscription: LR: J.H.SHARP. On backing board in Sharp’s hadn: SWEET WILLIAM My best flower painting / Flowers from Mrs. Phoebe Hearst, Calif.

Owner: Stark Museum of Art, Orange, TX

Accession Number: 31.25.19

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.