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Chief Rocky Bear - Sioux

This was one of five versions of Rocky Bear to be shown at the Cincinnati Museum in 1900 and again at both the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, NY and the Cosmos Club in Washington, DC in 1901. (see for example related image, #334)

 

 

Chief Rocky Bear - Sioux

Record ID: 157

Date: 1900

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions:

18 x 12 in.

Signature / Inscription:

LR: J.H.SHARP. / Pine Ridge  S.D.
UR: CHIEF ROCKY BEAR / SIOUX

Owner: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum, Berkeley, CA

Accession Number: 17-47

Provenance:

The artist; Phoebe Hearst, San Francosco, CA, 1901; present owner by gift.

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Bonheur, Mounted Indians Carrying Spears (1890)

Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody Rosa Bonheur

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.

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