One of the reasons that Sharp preferred to leave Montana in the summers was that he felt it was just too green. This unidentified landscape, with its intense kelly green foreground, would suggest that at least the artist tried to accommodate the surge of spring verdure.

Spring Landscape

Record ID: 726

Date: 1905

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 16 x 24 in.

Signature / Inscription: LR: J.H.SHARP. 05.

Owner: Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT

Accession Number: VS1993.123

Provenance: The artist; [?]; Virginia Snook, Billings, MT; present owner by gift

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.

Spring Landscape

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