Penciled on dust cover: Apache Ambush Arizona. Penciled on frame: APACHE AMBUSH Moonlight, Arizona.

Sharp painted other fanciful genre scenes in the mid-1940s such as the oil On the Little Bighorn which carries an equally imaginative title. (related image, # 507) Sharp's painting of about 1913, Mesa Reptiles, may be something of a prototype for this work. (see related image, #563)

Apache Ambush; [Apache Ambush, Arizona]

Alternate Title:

Apache Ambush Moonlight, Arizona

Record ID: 373

Date: ca. 1946; [1900]

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 28 3/8 x 25 3/8 in.

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

Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

Accession Number: 0137.387

Provenance:

The artist; Thomas Gilcrease, Tulsa, OK; 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.

Apache Ambush; [Apache Ambush, Arizona]

Related

On the Little Bighorn (ca. 1946)

Mesa Reptiles; [Three Indians with Rifles] (ca. 1913)

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