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Interior of Sweat Teepee

This is a late painting, executed very possibly just for his patron, Thomas Gilcrease. It is close in style and composition to The Medicine Man of 1948 (#44).

Interior of Sweat Teepee

Record ID: 35

Date: 1948

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 34 3/8 x 40 1/2 in.

Signature / Inscription:

LR: J H.SHARP.
Inscribed on dust cover: "Interior of Sweat Teepee Finished Aug 1948- Purification Ceremony – and for colds & various ills- J.H.Sharp"

Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

Accession Number: 0137.300

Provenance: The artist; Thomas Gilcrease, Tulsa, OK; The Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, 1955; present owner by gift

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The Medicine Man (1948

Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, 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.