There are no known public exhibitions with this title listed. In the late teens and early twenties, Sharp was producing a good number of firelight scenes, usually identified by sitter. One that appeared at the Hotel Gibson galleries in 1922, titled Firelight Song, is generic enough to suggest this work.

There is a related small sketch titled Crucita, Taos Indian Girl that may be a study for this work. See related image, #620.

Crucita and Bawling Deer - Taos Indians

Alternate Title:

Firelight Song?

Record ID: 399

Date: ca. 1920; [1920]

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 29 3/4 x 34 9/16 in.

Signature / Inscription:

LL: J.H.SHARP.

UC on dust cover: Crucita and Bawling Deer - Taos Indians - Painted about 1920 - In the method of the Old Masters - On white canvas, with white, black and Venitian [sic] red and colors glazed on. J.H.Sharp

Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

Accession Number: 0137.324

Provenance:

The artist; Thomas Gilcrease, Tulsa, OK; The Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, Tulsa, OK, 1955; 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.

Crucita and Bawling Deer - Taos Indians

Related

Crucita, Taos Indian Girl (ca. 1920)

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