Sharp is known to have enjoyed cigars off and on throughout his adult life. The lids of their containers provided a ready support for several of Sharp's more jocular, informal artistic efforts.

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Record ID: 219

Date: 1902-1910

Medium: oil on a cigar box lid

Dimensions: 5 1/4 x 9 in.

Signature / Inscription: LR: J.H. Sharp

Owner: Denver Art Museum, Denver CO

Accession Number: 2013.129

Provenance: The artist; [?]; [Saks Galleries, Denver, CO]; Henry Roath, Denver, CO, 2006; present owner by gift, 2013

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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