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Portrait of a Taos Girl

This portrait of a young Taos girl draped in Sharp's favorite rose decorated shawl was probably painted in the early teens.  It resembles several portraits of the artist's favorite Taos model, Crucita, painted around 1913.  See #696 as an example.

Portrait of a Taos Girl

Record ID: 742

Date: ca. 1913

Medium: oil on board

Dimensions: 9 x 7 in.

Signature / Inscription: LR: J.H.SHARP

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

Accession Number: 49-539

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.