Blackfeet Tipis, Glacier Park, Montana
Record ID: 590
Date: 1901-1907; [1891]
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 9 1/2 x 13 3/4 in.
Signature / Inscription:
LL: J.H.SHARP. On sticker on verso: no. 8 - Blackfeet tepees[illegible] Blackfeet. On verso: Blackfeet Tepees Glacier Park - Mont. On small sticker on verso: L.1891 8.
The photographer Walter McClintock made a lantern slide of this distinctive red teepee. (see McClintock Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, related image, #590a)
Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK
Accession Number: 0137.38
Provenance: The artist; [?]; Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, Tulsa, OK; present owner by gift, 1964
Related
Red Painted Tipi
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT
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.
