Joseph H. Henry Sharp Catalogue

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Blackfoot Camp

This sketch features the Blackfeet chief, Many White Horse's, buffalo hide teepee near what would become Glacier National Park in north western Montana. Sharp prized this teepee and eventually, in about 1905, after several years of negotiating, purchased the treasure from Many White Horses.

 

In Sharp's possession, the teepee was originally pitched near his studio at Crow Agency and later outside his Taos studio.  It served as a prop and as an auxiliary studio for many years. The artist donated it, probably in the 1940s, to the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles which still owns the trophy that Sharp always regarded as the last hide teepee in private hands.

Blackfoot Camp

Record ID: 721

Date: ca. 1905

Medium: oil on canvas

Signature / Inscription:

LL: J.H.SHARP.

Owner: Southwest Museum of the American Indian Collection, Autry Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Accession Number: 444.G.225


Provenance: The artist; [?]; present owner

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.