This is a bit more finished work, patterned after BBCW's larger oil, Burial Cortege of a Crow Chief. (related image, #12) It was in Sharp's studio in 1945 when Thomas Gilcrease visited and Sharp may have signed it then, though it too seems unfinished.

The Funeral

Alternate Title: Burial Cortege of a Crow Chief

Record ID: 61

Date: ca. 1910; [1900]

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 18 3/8 x 30 1/2 in.

Signature / Inscription:

LL: J H SHARP.

Inscribed on brass plate on frame: The Funeral

Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

Accession Number: 0137.313

Provenance:

The artist; Thomas Gilcrease, Tulsa, OK; The Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, Tulsa, OK, 1955; 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.

The Funeral

Related

Burial Cortege of a Crow Chief (ca. 1905)

Sketch - Two Seated Indian Women (ca. 1905)

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