This is the early version of White Swan that was exhibited in 1901 at the Cosmos Club in Washington, DC and sold from there to the Smithsonian Institution. It may have been exhibited earlier at the Cincinnati Museum in 1900. It is a similar pose to that of Sharp's 1904 and 1906 portraits of White Swan. (related images, #s10 and 233)

White Swan - Crow

Record ID: 255

Date: 1899; [ca. 1900]

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 16 x 11 in.

Signature / Inscription: LC: J.H.SHARP. / CROW RES, MONT; UC: WHITE SWAN - CROW / figure of bird

Owner: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Accession Number: 1985.66.209,419

Provenance: The artist; present owner by purchase, 1901

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.

White Swan - Crow

Related

White Swan (ca. 1906)

White Swan, Head #4 (1904)

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