Sharp made a list of paintings he sent to San Diego’s Panama-California Exposition in 1915.  Included on that list was a painting titled The Sunset Dance which he indicated as measuring 30 x 40 in. (Sharp Papers) That large version, which never seems to have reached San Diego, was sold just after the fair to the oilman J. S. Cullinan of Houston, TX. This smaller version may have been inspired by that earlier, larger canvas.

This painting or another variation titled The Sunset Dance, Taos (related image, #493) was first shown at the exhibition, Indian and Western Paintings held at the Traxel Art Galleries in Cincinnati in early December, 1924. In 1925 Sharp displayed it at the Nicholson Art Gallery in Pasadena (Star News, 3/28/1925), with the TSA at the Springfield Art Association in MA in 1925-26 and at The Schroeder Galleries, Pasadena in 1927.  (Sharp Papers)

A smaller study of the view without figures exists (see related image, #239b). Sharp exhibited one of the versions of the larger work again in 1927 at the Schroeder Galleries in Pasadena. Another variation, picturing Hunting Son silhouetted in front of the pueblo scene, can be seen in #623.