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Birds All Over the Ground - Crow Chief

On paper attached to dust cover: Birds all over the Ground Crow - 1904 - His coat a clever work of craftsmanship - Deer or Elk skin - only the belly opening - no seams - forelegs make the sleeves. In tanning enough fur left for collar - came below the knees. Stuffed weasel probably has his umbilical cord & other medicine in it. This canvas was scorched in a fire where I lost 15 other portraits.

 

This oil, or #305, was probably the version exhibited a couple of years after it was completed, in New York at the Fishel, Adler & Schwartz Galleries in 1906.

Birds All Over the Ground - Crow Chief

Alternate Title:

Birds All Over the Ground, Crow

Record ID: 428

Date: 1904

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 20 7/8 x 14 3/4 in.

Signature / Inscription: LR: J.H.SHARP / 04

Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

Accession Number: 0137.375

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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Birds All Over the Ground, Crow (1906)

Gilcrease Museum, Oklahoma, OK

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.