Singers of the Night -- Taos Pueblo was first exhibited in the 1928 show Indian and Western Paintings at Cincinnati's Traxel Art Galleries. It was a large and important work, and led the list of paintings featured in that year's annual Sharp exhibition. That show included two other moonlight and dusk landscapes.

Singers of the Night - Taos Pueblo; [Singers of the Night, Taos Pueblo]

Record ID: 62

Date: ca. 1928; [1900]

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 35 x 45 1/4 in.

Signature / Inscription:

LR: JHSHARP.

Inscribed on dust cover," singer of the Night-Taos Pueblo"

Inscribed on frame on verso: "ceremonial around Tree"

Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

Accession Number: 0137.305

Provenance:

The artist; Thomas Gilcrease, Tulsa, OK, 1946; 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.

Singers of the Night - Taos Pueblo; [Singers of the Night, Taos Pueblo]

Related

Moonlight, Taos Pueblo (ca. 1928)

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