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The Apaches are Out

Penciled on verso: "J H SHARP". Sticker on verso: "The Apaches are out (Moonlight on the Desert)."

 

This painting has all the stylistic, compositional and technical characteristics of the 1897 painting, The Lament., #268. The Impressionist brush strokes and Post-impressionist palette suggest that this work  was created in the mid-1890s.The signature type, however, is suggestive of post-1903 works.

The Apaches are Out

Alternate Title: Moonlight on the Desert

Record ID: 383

Date: after 1903

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 19 x 26 5/8 in.

Signature / Inscription: LR: J.H.SHARP

Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

Accession Number: 0137.342

Provenance:

The artist; [?]; Dr. Philip G. Cole, Tarrytown, NY; Thomas Gilcrease, Tulsa, OK, 1947; The Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, Tulsa, OK; present owner by gift 1955

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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.