This appears to be a study for a large and important painting from about 1915, The Old War Shield, #360. The model is a young Pueblo boy, Alberto Luhan. The painting was featured in the exhibition, Indian and Western Paintings at Gibson House galleries in Cincinnati in 1915. That show also included four paintings titled Taos Indian Boy and one called simply Alberto. This painting, Beside the Teepee’s Blaze, could easily be one of those works.
Beside the Teepee’s Blaze
Alternate Title:
Alberto
Record ID: 662
Date: ca, 1915; [ca. 1920]
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 16 1/8 x 20 1/4 in.
Signature / Inscription: LR: J.H.SHARP. On backing board in Sharp’s hand: BESIDE THE TEPEE’S BLAZE Early 1920’s / J.H Sharp. Verso: Alberto-Firelight / COUNCIL CALL OF CROWS / TEPEES MOONLIGHT
Owner: Stark Museum of Art, Orange, TX
Accession Number: 31.25.47
Provenance: The artist; [?]; [Jane Hiatt, La Fonda Art Gallery, Taos, New Mexico]; H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1956; H.J. Lutcher Stark Estate; present owner: Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, Orange, Texas, by bequest, 1965; accession to Stark Museum of Art, 1965
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