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Burial Cortege of a Crow Chief

This large, unsigned study is a companion work to Dividing the Chief’s Property (related image, #1).  It, like its associated canvas, was given by Sharp to his friend Carolyn Riebeth, Guil Reynolds’ daughter. Unlike the latter, it was never converted to a finished painting.

Burial Cortege of a Crow Chief

Record ID: 12

Date: ca. 1905; [1900-1910]

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 27 x 39 3/8 in.

Signature / Inscription:

Unsigned

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

Accession Number: 2.61

Provenance:

The artist; Mrs. E. W. Riebeth, Hardin, MT; present owner by purchase, 1961, Whitney Purchase Fund.

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Sketch from Burial Cortege of a Crow Chief (Indian Looking Left) (ca. 1905)

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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.