This painting would appear to have been painted in Sharp's Bell Chapel Studio in Taos using a backdrop from a room in the nearby pueblo (#and would therefore date between 1910 and 1914.

Twilight (Hopi Girl)

Record ID: 249

Date: 1910-1914; [after 1896]

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 20 1/8 x 16 in.

Signature / Inscription: LR: J.H.SHARP

Owner: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Accession Number: 1993.48.7

Provenance: The artist; [?]; Arvin Gottlieb; present owner by gift

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.

Twilight (Hopi Girl)

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