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Wind River Country - From Fort Washakie, Wyoming; [Near Fort Washakie and Lander, Wyoming]

Sharp is known to have visited the Shoshone and Arapaho Reservation in central Wyoming the summer of 1907. He wrote this in a letter from Fra Dana's Parkman, Wyoming 2A Ranch to his Cincinnati friend J. H. Gest in November that year. (Sharp Papers)  This is a view of the east side of the Wind River Mountains.

 

This may be the painting Sharp exhibited some years after its creation,  A painting by the name of Wind River Country - From Fort Washakie, Wyoming was presented in 1916 at Cincinnati's Traxel Art Galleries in the exhibition Indian and Wester Paintings. A similarly titled work, Wind River Country, Wyo was shown at the same venue in 1925.

 

Sharp painted many portraits among the two tribes.  Exemplary of those efforts was a portrait of the Arapaho man, Quiver.  (see related image, #483)

Wind River Country - From Fort Washakie, Wyoming; [Near Fort Washakie and Lander, Wyoming]

Alternate Title:

Wind River Country, Wyo.

Record ID: 735

Date: 1907

Dimensions: 6 7/8 x 9 5/8 in.

Signature / Inscription:

Unsigned

Owner: Billings Public Library, Billings, MT

Accession Number: 1998.9


Provenance: The artist; [?]; present owner

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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.