This painting is remarkably similar to another oil in the Gilcrease Museum collection, Chant to the War Bonnet (#82). The sizes are about the same and the central and right hand figures are repeated, Frank Bawling Deer and John Hunting Son. The older gentleman, who probably painted the robe, is not identified. The two paintings were exhibited together in Indian and Other Paintings, at the Traxel Art Galleries, Cincinnati, 1927.
The War Chief’s Story of the Robe
Alternate Title: [The Story of the War Robe]
Record ID: 38
Date: 1927; [1910]
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 35 1/2 x 41 1/2 in.
Signature / Inscription:
LR: JHSHARP.
Inscribed on dust cover. "The Story of the War robe J.H.Sharp"
Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK
Accession Number: 0137.321
Provenance: The artist; Thomas Gilcrease, Tulsa, OK; The Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, 1955; present owner by gift
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