Sharp painted a second version of Two Leggins wearing the same shirt but different adornments that is also in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (related image, #251).

Two Leggins. Head Chief of Little Big Horn Crows; [Chief Two Leggins]

Record ID: 209

Date: ca. 1900

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 18 x 12 in.

Signature / Inscription: LR: J.H.SHARP

Owner: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Accession Number: 1985.66.362,043

Provenance: The artist; [?]; Victor Justice Evans; present owner by bequest

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.

Two Leggins. Head Chief of Little Big Horn Crows; [Chief Two Leggins]

Related

Crows; [Two Leggins, Crow Chief] (1900)

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