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Yellow Shield, Crow; [Chief Yellow Shield]

Penciled on dust cover: 1904 – Chief Yellow Shield – Crow – Scout for U.S. In Custer Battle, also for General Miles, Forsyth Scott. – J.H. Sharp

 

Sharp’s sales ledgers indicate that Gilcrease purchased this portrait directly from the artist in September 1949.

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Yellow Shield, Crow; [Chief Yellow Shield]

Record ID: 474

Date: 1904

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 17 1/2 x 13 1/2 in.

Signature / Inscription: LR: J.H.SHARP.

Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

Accession Number: 0137.485

Provenance:

The artist; Thomas Gilcrease, Tulsa, OK, 1949; The Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, Tulsa, OK; present owner by gift 1955

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.