The first time this was exhibited, in the Gilcrease Foundation's retrospective, was in 1949 under the title Deaf Bull, Crow.

Sharp painted at least two other portraits of Deaf Bull. One, at the Woolaroc Museum, was painted in 1905, the year Deaf Bull died. (see related image, #522)

Deaf Bull, Crow; [Chief Deaf Bull]

Record ID: 83

Date: 1904

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 17 3/4 x 13 3/4 in.

Signature / Inscription:

LL: J.H.SHARP.

Inscribed and attached to dust cover: on Deaf Bull. 1904-6 Crow Always a fighter for Crow rights as well as warrior-In the last uprising against the Gov'nt he was the last to surrender. Not vindictive but (cont'd from Signature).. loyal to the Crows"; Inscribed in pencil on frame: "Chief Deaf Bull-Crow-Last to surrender after last Crow War with Gov'nt 1904-6"

Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

Accession Number: 0137.374

Provenance:

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

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.

Deaf Bull, Crow; [Chief Deaf Bull]

Related

Crow Indians Firing into the Agency, 1887

Deaf Bull (1898)

Chief Deaf Bull — Crow (1905)

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