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Yellow Wings; [Yellow Wings - Cheyenne]

This portrait was first exhibited at the Cincinnati Art Museum’s show Special Exhibition of Indian Portraits by Mr. J. H. Sharp in October 1900. It appeared a year later at Sharp’s exhibition at the Cosmos Club in Washington, DC and was purchased by the Smithsonian Institution from there.

Yellow Wings; [Yellow Wings – Cheyenne]

Record ID: 257

Date: 1900

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 18 x 12 in.

Signature / Inscription: LL: J.H.SHARP. / LAME DEER / MONT; UR: YELLOW WINGS. / CHEYENNE.

Owner: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Accession Number: 1985.66.209.412

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.