Glacier Park, Blackfeet Reservation, Montana

Exhibition catalogues for Sharp are not available for the years 1902 through 1904. This work may be later than that, however, matching a title in a show at the Closson Galleries in Cincinnati, Pictures of the West, that included two Glacier area landscapes with teepees, Summer Camp in the Woods, Blackfoot Country (# 526) and what may be this work, Spring Evening in Blackfoot Country.

A smaller, associated sketch taken later in the day and from a slightly different vantage point can be seen in related image, #725.

Glacier Park, Blackfeet Reservation, Montana

Alternate Title: Spring Evening in the Blackfoot Country?

Record ID: 560

Date: ca. 1907

Medium: oil on fabric support

Dimensions: 24 1/2 x 30 in.

Signature / Inscription: LR: J.H.SHARP. "Glacier Park, Blackfeet Reservation, Montana. / Big hotel not far from tepees on left. / Picture painted before hotel was built. J.H. Sharp. / Never showed it much / or tried to sell it. / Never painted a better mountain pictue. / JHS. Aug. 1950" Penciled on old backing board: "550" "not for sale" and "650" (crossed out). Inked on old backing board "Plate #5" "Glacier Park - Blackfeet Res -" and "450" have been partially erased on old backing board

Owner: Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, IN

Accession Number: 1989.3.86

Provenance: The artist; [?]; Harrison Eiteljorg; present owner by gift

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.

Glacier Park, Blackfeet Reservation, Montana

Related

Summer Camp in the Woods - Blackfoot Country; Restlessly at Home (1907)

Glacier Park (ca. 1907)

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