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Soaring Eagle

According to label on verso: "Soaring Eagle, Pueblo of Taos, N.M. my favorite model and fine type." There is also a sticker on the verso that indicates that the painting was exhibited at the Denver Artists’ Club with a price of $200 prior to the Hearst purchase.

 

Soaring Eagle’s portrait was exhibited at the Cincinnati Museum in 1900 and at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, NY and the Cosmos Club in Washington, DC in 1901.

Soaring Eagle

Record ID: 168

Date: 1898

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 13 5/8 x 9 1/2 in.

Signature / Inscription: LL: COPYRIGHT 1898 / BY / J.H. SHARP. / TAOS. N. MEX.

Owner: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum, Berkeley, CA

Accession Number: 17-58

Provenance: The artist; Phoebe A. Hearst, San Francisco, CA, 1902; present owner by gift

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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.