Penciled on duster cover UC: "The Old Shield - by J.H.Sharp. Taos Return to Taos, via Taos Junction New Mex. Penciled on dust cover UL: Joseph Henry Sharp Old War Shield."

This painting was offered for sale at the Gibson House in Cincinnati in Indian and Western Paintings, 1915. Sharp displayed this work in Santa Fe at the opening of the new art museum of the Museum of New Mexico in 1917 (part of a TSA exhibition). Then again it was presented in Cincinnati at The Traxel Art Galleries in Indian and Western Paintings in 1928.

An oil study for the boy on the composition's right exists in the Stark Museum of Art, related image #662.

The Old War Shield

Alternate Title: The Old Shield

Record ID: 360

Date: ca. 1915; [1900]

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 34 3/4 x 40 1/2 in.

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

Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

Accession Number: 0137.310

Provenance:

The artist; Thomas Gilcrease, Tulsa, OK; The Thomas Gilcrease Foundation; 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.

The Old War Shield

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