Crow Squaws Making Camp; [Making Camp, Crow Reservation]

This is probably the large painting titled Crow Squaws Making Camp that was presented in the Sharp exhibition, An Exhibition of Pictures of the West at the University Club in Cincinnati in November, 1912.

The central structure in this composition was Sharp's large Blackfeet buffalo hide teepee that he acquired in about 1905. It was situated just south of his house and studio. A number of paintings like this resulted including a smaller earlier work, Crow Reservation of about 1905. (see related image, #614)

Crow Squaws Making Camp; [Making Camp, Crow Reservation]

Alternate Title: Setting up Camp

Record ID: 57

Date: ca. 1912; [1890]

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 35 5/8 x 45 3/4 in.

Signature / Inscription:

LR: JHSHARP.

Inscribed dust cover: "Making Camp, Crow Reservation" and "Setting up Camp"

Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

Accession Number: 0137.299

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 Squaws Making Camp; [Making Camp, Crow Reservation]

Related

Crow Reservation (ca. 1905)

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