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Crow Teepees at Night

This painting is somewhat related to a couple of canvases painted in the mid-1920s, Council Call of the Crows. (see related images, #s 65 and 283)

 

Sharp's sales ledgers for February 1927 record this painting selling to Cole with the title of Night Teepees etc. (Sharp Papers)

Crow Teepees at Night

Alternate Title:

Night Teepees

Record ID: 48

Date: ca. 1927; [late 19th - early 20th century]

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 23 5/8 x 33 3/4 in.

Signature / Inscription:

LR: JHSHARP.
Inscribed on sticker attached to frame on verso: Crow Teepees at Night / JH Sharp

Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

Accession Number: 0137.548

Provenance:

The artist; [?]; Dr. Philip G. Cole, Brooklyn, NY, 1927; Thomas Gilcrease, Tulsa, OK; The Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, Tulsa, OK, 1955; present owner by gift

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Council Call of Crows: Firelight and Twilight (ca. 1927)

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Council Call of Crows, Montana (ca. 1927)

Stark Museum of Art, Orange, TX

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Shadows in the Night

Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, WY

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.

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