Thought to have been painted on Pine Ridge Reservation. Red Cloud died shortly after this portrait was completed, at age 80, in 1902.
Sharp visited Pine Ridge and the Sioux in 1900 and was fortunate to have Red Cloud sit for him. In the catalogue entry written by Sharp for the Gilcrease Foundation exhibition of 1949, Sharp wrote that Red Cloud was "one of the world’s great warriors. Very prominent as leader of the Sioux in the Custer Battle. Prominent as the leader in the Red Cloud War (1866-67)."
Sharp made an etching of this portrait, related image, #72a.
Red Cloud
Alternate Title:
Red Cloud, a Great Sioux Chief
Record ID: 72
Date: ca. 1900; [1890]
Medium: oil on canvas board
Dimensions: 14 1/2 x 11 3/4 in.
Signature / Inscription:
LL: J.H.SHARP / PINE RIDGE, S.D. UL: RED CLOUD
Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK
Accession Number: 0137.393
Provenance:
The artist; [?]; Dr. Philip G. Cole, Tarrytown, NY; Thomas Gilcrease, Tulsa, OK; The Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, Tulsa, OK, 1955; present owner by gift
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