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Bull Head, Gros Ventre; [Chief Bull Head]

Penciled on cardboard backing: 1897-8 Chief Bull Head Gros Ventre – A French-Canadian name – Their home on the border near the Blackfeet – All the N.W. Indians worth while the Sioux could muster were in Custer fight and before. He had a fine reputation as a warrior.

 

This is an early portrait, but not painted in the late 1890s. The style of the work and the signature type would suggest a date closer to 1905.

Bull Head, Gros Ventre; [Chief Bull Head]

Record ID: 466

Date: ca. 1905; [1897-1898]

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 20 7/8 x 14 7/8 in.

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

Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

Accession Number: 0136.495

Provenance:

The artist; [?]; Dr. Philip G. Cole, Tarrytown, NY; Thomas Gilcrease, Tulsa, OK, 1947; The Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, Tulsa, OK; present owner by gift 1955

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.