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Bull Thigh, Cheyenne; [Bull Thigh]

Inscribed in pencil on a paper glued to cardboard backing: 1897-8 / Bull Thigh-Cheyenne. Time and weather made his skin leathery, but was mild and lovable character. White man beat him up one day, was arrested & taken to Helena for trial- Bull Thigh had to go as witness-first time on a train, first in hotel & etc.- Looking for him in a.m., his bed untouched, but found him under it- rolled up in his blanket asleep. He ate at every chance & plenty of it. When the trial came up he refused to testify- he had such a good time and eats he tho't it was to even up things. Judge discharged man, who shook hands with Bull Thigh, and every one satisfied. A profile painted same time in Paris Exposition of 1900, and reproduced in photo gravure &" on verso. (This Paris work is probably #327a).

 

The Gilcrease Museum's version here was probably the painting exhibited in New York at the Fishel, Adler & Schwartz Galleries in 1906. Sharp's friend, Joe Scheuerle painted Bull Thigh in 1911 and made note that Sharp had already done the honors. (see related image, #425a)

 

Sharp's friend and fellow Munich student, Joe Scheuerle, painted Bull Thigh a half a dozen years later. (see related image, #425a)

Bull Thigh, Cheyenne; [Bull Thigh]

Record ID: 425

Date: ca. 1905; [1897-1898]

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 16 5/8 x 12 3/4 in.

Signature / Inscription: LL: J.H.SHARP

Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

Accession Number: 0136.506


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

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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.