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The War Bonnet

Sharp's sales ledgers for 1916 record a painting titled War Bonnet selling for $350 to Wyoming Governor John B. Kendrick through Herbert A. Coffeen who was a noted photographer and operated the TeePee Shop in Sheridan, WY. (Sharp Papers)  An undated Hotel Gibson Catalogue of Indian and Western Paintings brochure (1916) has The War Bonnet listed as number 22. That painting is probably this one, #16. There was also a very similar oil titled The Old War Bonnet that was acquired by the Santa Fe Railway in 1916. (related image, #16b)

The War Bonnet

Record ID: 16

Date: ca. 1916; [1899-1909]

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 24 1/8 x 20 1/8 in.

Signature / Inscription: LL: JHSHARP.

Owner: Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, WY

Accession Number: 24.61

Provenance:

The artist; John B. Kendrick, Cheyenne, WY, 1916; [?]; present owner by gift of Robert Rockwell and the Rockwell Company, Corning, NY, 1961.

Related

Untitled JH Sharp artwork

Sioux Bonnet

Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Untitled JH Sharp artwork

The Old War Bonnet (ca. 1916)

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, Fort Worth, TX

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.

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