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Cheyenne Medicine Prayer

According to Sharp’s sales ledgers, this painting, titled Cheyenne Medicine Prayer, sold to Mrs. Hearst in June 1904.  A smaller variation of this theme, Cheyenne Medicine Teepee, was offered at Sharp’s 1923 exhibition, Indian Paintings and Western Landscapes and Sketches in Africa and Spain at Cincinnati’s Traxel Art Galleries. Its style, palette and subject suggest that this smaller version was probably also painted around 1904. (related image, #199a) The Eiteljorg Museum owns another version of the scene (related image, #569) An initial study for this work was an oil sketch titled Cheyenne Res.- Mont. (related image, #589)

Cheyenne Medicine Prayer

Alternate Title: Camp Scene

Record ID: 199

Date: 1904

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 30 x 40 in.

Signature / Inscription:

Unknown

Owner: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum, Berkeley, CA

Accession Number: 17-171

Provenance:

The artist; Phoebe Hearst, San Francisco, CA, 1904; present owner by gift, 1915

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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.