Over the years between 1900 and 1908 Sharp painted a number of portraits of this man, Dick Spotted Elk, son of the famous Spotted Elk/Big Foot who died in 1890 at the Wounded Knee Massacre.

The Smithsonian Institution owns two portraits of Spotted Elk. (see also #223) There was one other known portrait of Spotted Elk painted in 1905. (#547). One of these two 1905 versions was exhibited at the Fishel, Adler & Schwartz Galleries in New York in 1906, the Closson Galleries in Cincinnati, the St. Louis Museum of Fine Arts and the Cincinnati Museum in 1908 as well as the University Club in Cincinnati in 1912..