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Peonies

Sharp seems to have especially enjoyed painting peonies. The first recorded exhibition of a still life with peonies was in 1935 at the Kreimer Brother Co. galleries in Cincinnati. About a half dozen such works are recorded in Sharp's sales ledgers in the following years. (Sharp Papers)

 

A painting of this title and size sold in 1944 for $600 with frame to J. Allen Wickoff of Raton, New Mexico. Another similar work was sold to Charles E. Doll so Santa Fe in 1947. There are three known paintings of peonies this same size, so it is impossible to know which version any one of them is.  (see related images, #s 290 and 675)

Peonies

Record ID: 724

Date: ca. 1935; [ca. 1930]

Medium: oil on linen

Dimensions:

30 1/4 x 36 in.

Signature / Inscription:

LR: J.H.SHARP; on verso of dust cover, in Sharp's hand:: PEONIES 450 / Chinese drapery & Vase - JHSharp.

Owner: Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM

Accession Number: 1987.005.0001


Provenance:

The artist; [?]; Elizabeth A. Malone, Estate; present owner by gift

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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.