Title changed 7-18-78 from "Sioux Brave."

Portraits of this Taos man began appearing in exhibitions as early as 1900. The signature style would suggest that this version is later, perhaps in 1909, as Sharp's inscription records.

Eagle Star

Alternate Title: Sioux Brave

Record ID: 651

Date: 1909

Medium: oil on wood

Dimensions: 9 x 5 7/8 in.

Signature / Inscription: LR: J.H.SHARP. Verso: 1909 / Eagle Star / Pueblo of Taos, New Mex / J.H. Sharp. / Mrs. Amado Chares / Santa Fe, N. Mexico

Owner: Stark Museum of Art, Orange, TX

Accession Number: 31.25.29

Provenance: The artist; [?]; C. Bland, Jamison; H.J. Lutcher Stark; 1960; H.J. Lutcher Stark Estate; present owner: Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, Orange, Texas, by bequest; 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.

Eagle Star

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