John and the Buffalo Skull; [Twilight (of a Dying Race)]

This is probably a painting referred to by Sharp as John & Buffalo Skull - Low Tone in his sales ledgers for April 1929. (Sharp Papers) That work was sold to C. R. Morley of Mentor, OH along with another canvas from the Rockwell Museum collection, Gift Dance Drummers - Twilight (#94), for $1,000.

A painting titled John and the Buffalo Skull was exhibited in Indian and Western Paintings at Cincinnati's Traxel Art Galleries in 1924. It may be this work.

John and the Buffalo Skull; [Twilight (of a Dying Race)]

Alternate Title:

John & Buffalo Skull - Low Tone

Record ID: 97

Date: ca. 1924; [1910]

Medium: oil on canvas

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

Signature / Inscription: LR: JHSHARP

Owner: The Rockwell Museum, Corning, NY

Accession Number: 78.64 F

Provenance:

The artist; C. R. Morley, Mentor, OH, 1929; [?]; The Rockwell Foundation, Corning, NY; present owner by purchase

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.

John and the Buffalo Skull; [Twilight (of a Dying Race)]

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