Penciled on paper attached to dust cover: Chief Iron Child, Sioux 1905 Painted in my studio at Crow Agency, when on a visit. Custer warrior, and they like to visit old battle grounds - particularly many squaws came to mourn departed braves. Iron Child was proud and wanted to look just right in his fine visiting clothes - White people are like that!

This portrait had a long exhibition history beginning in 1906 with the title of Iron Child, Sioux in New York at the Fishel, Adler & Schwartz Galleries and travelling to Cincinnati, Indianapolis and St. Louis in 1908, then to Kansas City in 1909 and back to Cincinnati in 1912. When Philip Cole acquired it is unknown.

Iron Child, Sioux; [Chief Iron Child]

Record ID: 467

Date: 1905

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 19 3/4 x 13 3/4 in.

Signature / Inscription: LR: J.H.SHARP. 05

Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

Accession Number: 0137.456

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.

Iron Child, Sioux; [Chief Iron Child]

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