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Concha: [Head of a Crow Indian]

We think this portrait might be of one of Sharp’s favorite early Taos sitters, a Pueblo man named Concha. Sharp did several individual portraits of Concha, including one of his must brilliant watercolors, related image, #500.  

Concha: [Head of a Crow Indian]

Record ID: 264

Date: 1908

Medium: oil on cigar box top

Dimensions: 8 3/8 x 5 7/8 in.

Signature / Inscription: R: J.H.SHARP

Owner: Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH

Accession Number: 1910.40

Provenance: The artist; present owner by gift

Related

Untitled JH Sharp artwork

Concha; “Concha,” Pueblo of Taos, N.M. (1898)

The Taos Art Museum, Taos, NM

Untitled JH Sharp artwork

Juan Concha – Taos Indian

National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, OK

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.