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Curley Crow - Custer

This, stylistically and by the design of the signature, appears to be an early portrait and was probably part of the initial, large sale to Mrs. Hearst that occurred in December 1901. It is nearly identical to a second version sold to Joseph Butler earlier in 1901. (related image, #337)

 

Both portraits were probably painted from a photograph taken at the Babcock Store at Crow Agency in about 1901. (See related image, #125a and Fenn, 2007, 149)

Curley Crow – Custer’s Scout

Record ID: 125

Date: 1901; [1904]

Medium:

oil on canvas

Dimensions:

18 x 12 in.

Signature / Inscription:

LL: J.H.SHARP.
Inscribed UR: CURLY – CROW / CUSTER’S SCOUT

Owner: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum, Berkeley, CA

Accession Number: 17-16

Provenance:

The artist; Phoebe Hearst, San Francisco, CA, 1901; present owner by gift.

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Custer’s Scout Curley (1900)

Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH

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Photograph of Curley (ca. 1901)

Charles M. Russell Museum, Great Falls, MT

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.