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Old Fireplace and Window, Taos Pueblo

Sharp apparently made this study in a room at the Taos Pueblo.  It was used as backdrop for a number of paintings that he produced from 1912 to 1915, including an important canvas, Grief, that he sent to the San Diego California-Pacific Exposition in 1915. (related image, #358b)  See also Fenn, 2007, 116 for a work he titles Taos Family that compositionally allies with Grief and probably dates to this period.

 

It also served as a study for a work of about 1912 titled Dawn. (related image, #658a)  Dawn was celebrated in the press as a masterpiece in light and figural treatment.

Old Fireplace and Window, Taos Pueblo

Record ID: 658

Date: ca. 1912

Medium: oil on canvas board

Dimensions: 9 3/4 x 13 3/4 in.

Signature / Inscription: LR: J.H.SHARP. Verso: Old fireplace & Window / Taos Pueblo

Owner: Stark Museum of Art, Orange, TX

Accession Number: 31.25.43

Provenance: The artist; [?]; [Jane Hiatt, La Fonda Art Gallery, Taos, New Mexico]; H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1956; H.J. Lutcher Stark Estate; present owner: Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, Orange, Texas, by bequest, 1965; accession to Stark Museum of Art, 1965

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Untitled JH Sharp artwork

Dawn, 1912

Private Collection. Image courtesy of Settlers West Gallery, Tucson, AZ

Untitled JH Sharp artwork

Grief,  from a clipping (1912)

Sharp Papers

Untitled JH Sharp artwork

Twilight (Hopi Girl)

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

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.