This landscape view was probably taken just south of Sharp's Crow Agency studio. It is thought to be a work titled Winter Camp near Custer Battlefield. If that is correct, it was first exhibited in 1908 at The Closson Galleries in Cincinnati. That work traveled widely with one of Sharp's most ambitious circulating exhibitions, A Collection of Paintings by J. H. Sharp. Museum visitors between 1908 and 1909 in St. Louis, Indianapolis and Kansas City would have enjoyed its frigid grip.

Winter Camp near Custer Battlefield; [Winter Camp]

Record ID: 722

Date: ca. 1908; [ca. 1901]

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions:

17 1/2 x 26 1/2 in.

Signature / Inscription: LR: J.H.SHARP

Owner: C.M. Russell Museum, Great Falls, MT

Accession Number: 976-1-5

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.

Winter Camp near Custer Battlefield; [Winter Camp]

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