This portrait, when first exhibited at the Cincinnati Museum in 1900, carried the subtitle of "Noted warrior and hunter,- killed two buffalo with one arrow." The painting later was shown at the Cosmos Club in Washington, DC. A second, possibly slightly later portrait of this man is in the Gilcrease Museum collection. (related image, #442)
Strong Left Hand
Record ID: 248
Date: 1900
Medium: oil on paperboard
Dimensions: 13 3/4 x 9 1/2 in.
Signature / Inscription: LL: J.H.SHARP. / LAME DEER. MONT; UR: STRONG LEFT HAND. / CHEYENNE.
Owner: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC
Accession Number: 1985.66.209,413
Provenance:
The artist; present owner by purchase, 1901
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