Boiled Dog Feast, Short Bull's Camp Pine Ridge
Record ID: 88
Date: 1900
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 9 7/8 x 12 7/8 in.
Signature / Inscription:
LR: J.H.SHARP.
Inscribed on sticker attached to frame on verso: Boiled Dog Feast Short Bulls [sic] Camp Pine Ridge. 1902-3 J.H. Sharp.
Inscribed on frame: Painted on the spot.- JHS. not for sale. Painted direct from the scene no changing once I did work on posing.
Inscribed on verso: Tribal ceremonials at Pine Ridge. Chief Short Bull, a great Chief and medicine man, whom I consider a much smarter man than Sitting Bull and not such a coward, had a great round up - "Boiled Dog Feast" The squaws are preparing it. The Interpreter failed to tell me, fearing it would offend the ladies. Later Short Bull asked me why "no come." Then I sailed into the interpreter. I would have eaten boiled dog with Short Bull if I threw up my soul
Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK
Accession Number: 0137.362
Provenance:
The artist; Thomas Gilcrease, Tulsa, OK; The Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, Tulsa, OK, 1964; present owner by gift
Related
Chief Short Bull (Head #1)
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
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.
