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Bright Angel, Grand Canyon

Sharp's sales ledgers indicate that Gilcrease purchased this landscape directly from the artist in January, 1950. (Sharp Papers)

 

It is not known how often Sharp painted the Grand Canyon area in snow conditions. He was there often over many years,  His large oil, A Hunting Party, was painted under a snowy mantle around 1920.  This may ally with that visit. (related image, #697)

Bright Angel, Grand Canyon

Record ID: 90

Date: ca. 1920?; {1900]

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 24 5/8 x 20 1/4 in.

Signature / Inscription:

LL: JHSHARP.
Inscribed on dust cover: Bright Angel, Grand Canyon, Ariz- painted in March Snow Storm.
Inscribed on paper sealed in plastic on verso: This frame O.K. temporarily - canvas cannot be put on stretcher, but can be mounted on unwarpable building board, a number of them O.K. & fil-in [sic] rabbit [sic] of frame of frame. A bright painting & will stand glass if it wanted, & keeps it flat. Picture just as it came out of portfolio 12-15 yrs ago J.H.Sharp

Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

Accession Number: 0137.344


Provenance:

The artist; Thomas Gilcrease, Tulsa, OK, 1950; The Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, Tulsa, OK, 1955; present owner by gift

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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.