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John and ther Bufalo Skull - Firelight; [El Greco]

This painting, for some reason, is known by the title of El Greco, an artist Sharp totally disregarded and whose style this does not particularly resemble.

 

Sharp painted a smaller work than this titled  John and the Buffalo Skull - Firelight and featured it in his annual Cincinnati exhibition at the Traxel Art Galleries in 1923. It measured only 16 x 20".

 

This larger canvas pictures John Hunting Son in supplication before a large bison skull. John smudges smoke with an eagle feather fan. It is not unreasonable to consider that this and the smaller 1923 version might be related.

John and ther Bufalo Skull - Firelight; [El Greco]

Record ID: 719

Date: ca. 1923

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 30 x 36 in.

Signature / Inscription: LR: J.H.SHARP

Owner:

Philbrook Museum of Art, The Eugene B. Adkins Collection, Tulsa, OK

Accession Number: L.2007.0007


Provenance: The artist; [?]; present owner

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.