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Garden of the Copper Bell

The "Copper Bell" refers to Sharp's first Taos studio, established in 1910 in an old church and in active use from 1912 until 1915 when he built another studio within his compound and turned the first one into a storage building. The Bell Chapel, as he called it, still stands today. This garden was just outside that original studio.

Garden of the Copper Bell

Record ID: 739

Date: after 1910

Medium: oil on board

Dimensions: 20 x 30 in.

Signature / Inscription: LR: J.H.SHARP

Owner: Montana Museum of Art & Culture, University of Montana, Missoula, MT

Accession Number: 49-537

Provenance: The artist; [?]; Fra Dana, Parkman, Montana; 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.