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

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.

Beside the Teepee's Blaze

Related

The Old War Shield (ca. 1915)

The Mystery of Fire, Black Deer (ca. 1915)

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