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The Red Olla

Verso on stretchers in pencil in artist's hand: "This painting should / never be varnished / J.H.Sharp. / Dec 192(4?)".

 

According to extant sales/exhibition records, this painting was first shown as The Red Olla  in November, 1916 in an exhibition at the Traxel's New Gallery, then in January, 1918 at the Hotel Gibson in Cincinnati and finally in the 1924 exhibition Mr. J. H. Sharp: Indian and Western Paintings in Cincinnati at the Traxel Art Galleries. It was presented a fourth time in 1925 in An Exhibition of Paintings by the Taos Society of Artists at the Young's Art Galleries, Chicago, IL.

The Red Olla

Record ID: 211

Date: ca. 1916; [ca. 1924]

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 16 1/3 x 20 1/4 in.

Signature / Inscription: LR: J H SHARP.  

Owner: Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO

Accession Number: 1989.148

Provenance:

The artist; [?]; [Ira Spanierman Gallery, New York, NY]; present owner by purchase, 1989 (William D. Hewit Charitable Annuity Trust)

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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.