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Soaring Eagle, Jr. [Indian boy or girl, green garland]

This portrait of Soaring Eagle, Jr. was exhibited at the Cincinnati Museum in 1900 and at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, NY and the Cosmos Club in Washington, DC in 1901.  It is one of his earliest portraits of Indian children, the son of one of his first Taos models, Soaring Eagle. (see related image, #168)

Soaring Eagle, Jr. [Indian boy or girl, green garland]

Record ID: 178

Date: ca. 1898

Medium: oil on academy board

Dimensions: 13 7/8 x 9 3/4 in.

Signature / Inscription:

LL: J.H.SHARP. / TAOS. NM.

Owner: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum, Berkeley, CA

Accession Number: 17-68

Provenance: The artist; Phoebe Hearst, San Francisco, CA, 1901; present owner by gift

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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.