This portrait of the Pueblo man, Running Horse, was exhibited at the Cincinnati Museum in 1900 and at the Cosmos Club in Washington, DC in 1901. The Smithsonian purchased it from the latter exhibition.

Sharp made an etching of this Taos man. (see related image, #247a)

Running Horse

Record ID: 247

Date: 1897

Medium: oil on paperboard

Dimensions: 13 3/4 x 9 5/8 in.

Signature / Inscription: LR: J.H.SHARP. / 97 / TAOS. / N.MEX.

Owner: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Accession Number: 1985.66.209,417

Provenance:

The artist; present owner by purchase, 1901

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.

Running Horse

Related

Running Horse—Taos (ca. 1900)

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