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The War Bonnet

This version of The War Bonnet is suggested by Sharp’s inscription to be "#1." As such, it may be related to two important early teepee interiors, A Gift for Her Brave of 1905 (related image, #79) and The Death Spirit of 1906 (related image, #512). Sharp purchased a large Blackfeet buffalo hide teepee in 1905 and used it as an auxiliary studio for the first of those two related woks.  The rich, soft dark tones in this painting, The War Bonnet, resemble the aura of the companion paintings and a date of ca. 1905 thus seems appropriate for this work.

 

The figure in this painting is seated on a Navajo chief’s blanket, probably the one that decorated the interior of the artist’s Absaokee Hut in these years.

The War Bonnet

Record ID: 665

Date: ca. 1905

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 24 1/8 x 30 3/8 in.

Signature / Inscription: LL:J.H.SHARP. Verso: #1 “The War Bonnett” / Firelight

Owner: Stark Museum of Art, Orange, TX

Accession Number: 31.25.52

Provenance: The artist; [?]; [Jane Hiatt, La Fonda Art Gallery, Taos, New Mexico]; H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1956; H.J. Lutcher Stark Estate; present owner: Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, Orange, Texas, by bequest, 1965; accession to Stark Museum of Art, 1965

Related

Untitled JH Sharp artwork

A Gift for Her Brave, ca. 1905

Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

Untitled JH Sharp artwork

The Death Spirit (ca. 1906)

Woolaroc Museum, Barttlesville, OK

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.