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Strikes His Enemy Pretty - Crow; [Strikes His Enemy Pretty]

This is perhaps the strongest of the many portraits of Sharp’s devoted Crow model, Strikes His Enemy Pretty. It is thought to have been a version of this sitter displayed in 1906 at his exhibition in New York’s Fishel, Adler & Schwartz Gallery and titled Strikes His Enemy Pretty – Crow.

 

For a full description of the various similar portraits, see entry #292.

Strikes His Enemy Pretty – Crow; [Strikes His Enemy Pretty]

Record ID: 13

Date: 1906; [1900-1911]

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 17 3/4 x 11 7/8 in.

Signature / Inscription: LL: J.H.SHARP 06

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

Accession Number: 21.61

Provenance:

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

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Strikes His Enemy Pretty—Firelight (1908)

Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH

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.