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Mary Kowshta Alaskan

The Sharps are known to have visited Alaska in August, 1900 where this portrait was  painted. Mary was a Chilkat Indian from Sitka.  A label affixed to this work reads: "Mary Koshta – daughter of a Chilkat chief (Alaska). Goes to school & speaks good English."

Mary Kowshta Alaskan

Alternate Title:

Mary Kowshta, Daughter of a Chilckat Chief

Record ID: 110

Date: ca. 1900

Medium: oil on academy board .

Dimensions:

13 1/2 x 9 1/2 in

Signature / Inscription:

LL: J.H. SHARP: UR: MARY KOWSHTA/ALASKA

Owner: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum, Berkeley, CA

Accession Number: 17-2

Provenance:

The artist; Phoebe Hearst, San Francisco, CA, 1901; 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.