Penciled on canvas on verso: Blackfoot. Elk Foot was also known as Big Brave. See related images, #s21 and 329. Entry #21 has a full account of Elk Horn.

Elk Horn

Alternate Title:

Elk Horn, Blackfoot

Record ID: 402

Date: 1905

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 20 1/4 x 14 1/8 in.

Signature / Inscription: LR: J.H.SHARP. / 05.

Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

Accession Number: 0137.379

Provenance:

The artist; [?]; Dr. Philip G. Cole, Tarrytown, New York; Thomas Gilcrease, Tulsa, OK, 1947; The Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, 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.

Elk Horn

Related

Big Brave, Blackfeet Dance Chief, 1905

Chief Elk Horn (or Big Brave)

Big Brave (ca. 1906)

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