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Twilight Tepees

This painting apparently pictures a Cheyenne camp at Lame Deer, Montana.  It is a half-again smaller than an oil painting sold to Phoebe Hearst in 1904 and titled Cheyenne Medicine Prayer. (sales ledgers, Sharp Papers; see related images, #s 199 and 199a)

Twilight Tepees

Alternate Title: Camp Scene (Cheyenne Medicine Prayer)

Record ID: 569

Date: ca. 1904; [after 1899]

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 16 x 20 in.

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

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

Accession Number: 2015.9.134

Provenance: The artist; [?]; Kenneth S. “Bud” and Nancy Adams; present owner by bequest

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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.