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"Looks Ahead" (Crow Chief)

This is an odd title.  Sharp inscribed the work as a Taos scene and the setting appears to be an adobe interior.  Why a Crow man would pose for him there is perplexing.

"Looks Ahead" (Crow Chief)

Alternate Title: The Crow Chief Looks Ahead

Record ID: 650

Date: 1910-1914

Medium: oil on canvas

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

Signature / Inscription: LR: J.H.SHARP. On backing board in Sharp's hand: 'LOOKS AHEAD' / FIRELIGHT / AND TWILIGHT / -TAOS

Owner: Stark Museum of Art, Orange, TX

Accession Number: 31.25.30

Provenance: The artist; Louise Sharp; C. Bland, Jamison; H.J. Lutcher Stark; 1958; 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.