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Tobacco Dance of the Plains Indians

So far as available records indicate, this painting was first preaented publicly in 1918 in an exhibition, Indian Paintings, at the Hotel Gibson in Cincinnati. It appeared as part of the TSA annual traveling exhibition in St. Louis the following April and in Santa Fe in September. (El Palacio, 9/30/1919).

 

Thomas Gilcrease paid Sharp $2,500 (less discounts) for this large oil in 1945, the highest price the artist had ever received for a work of art by that date (Fenn, 2007, 290). An inscription on a study for the painting (#76a) says that it was made in September 1907 on the Crow Reservation.

Tobacco Dance of the Plains Indians

Alternate Title: Tobacco Dance

Record ID: 76

Date: ca. 1918; [1910]

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 46 3/8 x 62 1/4 in.

Signature / Inscription: LR: J.H.SHARP.

Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

Accession Number: 0137.508

Provenance:

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

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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.