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Chief Marrow Bones

Penciled on dust cover on verso: Chief Marrow Bones - Blackfeet - 1900 - Sub-Chief on distant Part of Reservation

 

The signature type would suggest that this portrait was completed in 1903 or after. A painting by this title was exhibited in 1916 at Cincinnati's Hotel Gibson galleries.

Chief Marrow Bones

Alternate Title:

Marrow Bone, Blackfoot

Record ID: 469

Date: 1903 -1905; [1900]

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 20 1/2 x 14 5/8 in.

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

Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

Accession Number: 0137.440

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.