This colorful ensemble of trees and bushes along a creek is reminiscent of a painting called Green and Gold that Sharp exhibited in 1930 at the Pasadena Art Institute. (related image, #603) This and Taos Cañon probably date from the same period.

Taos Cañon, Cottonwood, Sage and Cedars

Record ID: 225

Date: ca. 1930; [late 1920s/early 1930s]

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25 x 30 in.

Signature / Inscription: LR: JHSHARP

Owner: The James Museum of Western and Wildlife Art, St. Petersburg, FL

Provenance:

The artist; [?]; [March in Montana, 2014]; Tom and Mary James, St. Petersburg, FL; present owner by gift

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.

Taos Cañon, Cottonwood, Sage and Cedars

Related

Green and Gold; [Taos Cañon: Cottonwood, Box Elder, Cedar, and (CA. 1930)

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