On brass plate: Bear in the Cloud Crow, a natural Beau Brummel - also an orator-. Illegible inscription in blue pencil on canvas.

This version of the Crow chief was one of two portraits (see related image, #550 and an earlier likeness sold to Phoebe Hearst in about 1902, #123) of this distinguished dandy of a Crow chief. It was widely exhibited, beginning in New York at the Fishel, Adler and Schwartz Galleries in 1906, then in Cincinnati and Indianapolis in 1908, and in Cincinnati again in 1912 and 1916.

Bear in the Cloud, Crow

Alternate Title:

Bear in the Cloud, Crow Chief

Record ID: 376

Date: 1905

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 20 1/8 x 14 1/8 in.

Signature / Inscription: LR: J.H.SHARP. 1905

Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

Accession Number: 0137.364

Provenance:

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

Bear in the Cloud, Crow

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Bear in the Cloud—Crow (ca. 1900)

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