Ascribed date is not feasible … Sharp hadn't been to MT in 1890 and palette suggests a much later date. Sharp produced a series of teepee paintings in the mid-1920s. Perhaps that date would fit better.

Crow Summer Teepees; [Crow Summer Tipis and Brush Shade]

Record ID: 66

Date: ca. 1920; [1890]

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 14 3/4 x 20 3/4 in.

Signature / Inscription:

LR: J.H.SHARP.

Inscribed on dust cover: "CROW SUMMER TEEPEES and brush shade-Left, showing construction of poles"

Inscribed upside down on verso: "Crow-Showing construction of teepee poles"

Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

Accession Number: 0137.328

Provenance:

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

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.

Crow Summer Teepees; [Crow Summer Tipis and Brush Shade]

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