This is probably Sharp's Firelight Songs of 1925 exhibited that year at the Traxel Art Galleries in Cincinnati. No paintings using the title of "fireside" are found in available sales records. Jerry Elk Foot, the figure on the left is similar to a singular portrait, related image, #695.

Firelight Songs; [Fireside Songs, Taos Indians]

Alternate Title: Hunting Songs

Record ID: 648

Date: ca. 1925

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 20 1/4 x 24 1/4 in.

Signature / Inscription: LR: J.H.SHARP. Verso: FIRESIDE SONGS- / TAOS INDIANS -. On backing board in Sharp's hand: HUNTING SONGS- DAYLIGHT AND FIRELIGHT- / C3205. On tacking edge: FIRESIDE SONGS; ELK FOOT HUNTING SON FIRESIDE CHANTS / TAOS BAWLING DEER

Owner: Stark Museum of Art, Orange, TX

Accession Number: 31.25.32

Provenance: The artist; [?]; Charles O. Erbaugh Collection; [Jane Hiatt, La Fonda Art Gallery, Taos, New Mexico]; H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1954; present owner: Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, Orange, Texas, by bequest, 1965; accession to Stark Museum of Art, 1965

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.

Firelight Songs; [Fireside Songs, Taos Indians]

Related

Elk Foot (Jerry Mirabal), Taos Indian (ca. 1925)

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