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Ceremonial Song for the Return of the Buffalo; [Prayer to the Spirit of the Buffalo]

This painting was first exhibited at Cincinnati’s Traxel’s Art Galleries in late 1923 in a show titled Indian Paintings and Western Landscapes and Sketches of Africa and Spain. Sharp exhibited this work again in Pasadena in 1925 at the Nicholson Art Gallery. (Star News, 3/28/1925)

 

Another closely related 1923 work titled Song to the Buffalo Skull is in the collections of the Stark Museum of Art, Orange, TX.  (see related image, #622)

 

Ceremonial Song for the Return of the Buffalo; [Prayer to the Spirit of the Buffalo]

Record ID: 279

Date: 1923; [1910]

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 30 1/4 x 40 1/4 in.

Signature / Inscription: LR: J.H.SHARP.

Owner: The Rockwell Museum, Corning, NY

Accession Number: 78.63 F

Provenance: The artist; [?]; The Rockwell Foundation, Corning, NY; present owner by purchase

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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.