Penciled on dust cover: Sioux Scalp Dance - J.H.Sharp. Inscribed: Probably my "Swan Song." Inscribed on note attached to dust cover: Frame too small but picture painted in it. If you keep it, frame like on Apache Ambush better - brings out color - Moulding #7248, finish 572 Newcomb - Machlin Co, 400-408 - No. State St. Chicago. May take 60 days or more.

Sharp sent this work to Gilcrease at the same time that he delivered his famous self-portrait, in 1947. (see # 42)

Sioux Scalp Dance

Record ID: 487

Date: 1947; [1897]

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 40 1/2 x 28 3/4 in.

Signature / Inscription: LR: J.H.SHARP. 1897

Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

Accession Number: 0137.318

Provenance:

The artist; [?]; Thomas Gilcrease, Tulsa, OK, 1947; The Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, Tulsa, OK, 1955; present owner by gift

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.

Sioux Scalp Dance

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