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Studio Interior; Frank & Cruce; [Indians in Taos Studio]

In 1916 at the Traxel Art Galleries in Cincinnati Sharp presented a painting he titled A Corner of the Studio.  That title seems to fit this work, but several things mitigate against that assumption. The figure in the mirror looks like Sharp in the mid-1920s (when Sharp was painting many similar works), and the small print the hangs to the left of the mirror appears in all three other known versions of such scenes finished between 1924 and 1926.

 

A dozen years later Sharp displayed this oil at the Kreimer & Brother galleries in Cincinnati.  It was referred to as a truly "novel" work. "By means of the mirrored portrait," a reviewer wrote, "the artist has signed his canvas twice." (Cincinnati Enquirer, 11/21/1936)

 

Sharp's sales ledger for 1945 indicates that a painting titled Studio Interior. Frank & Cruce, measuring 20 x 24 inches, sold to Mrs. W. A. Thompson of Santa Fe for $300. (Sharp Papers)  That is probably this painting.

Studio Interior; Frank & Cruce; [Indians in Taos Studio]

Alternate Title:

A Corner of My Studio in Taos, "Crucita & Francisco"; Studio Interior: Frank & Cruce (Crucita)

Record ID: 237

Date: ca. 1925

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 20 x 27 13/16 in.

Signature / Inscription: LR: J.H. SHARP.

Owner: Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ

Accession Number: 1985.136


Provenance:

The artist; Mrs. W. A. Thompson, Santa Fe, NM, 1945 (however, Riebeth, J. H. Sharp, 1985, 18, states that this painting was still in Sharp's possession in 1946 when she visited him in Taos); [?]; Carl S. Dentzel Family, Northridge, CA; present owner by gift, 1985.

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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.