- Artist
- Joseph Henry Sharp
- Date
- ca. 1905; [1898-1900]
- Catalogue Number
- 456
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Inscriptions
LL: J.H.SHARP.
Penciled on cardboard backing: Big Beaver - Blackfeet - 1898-1900 Blackfeet not all warriors except with adjoining tribes but many men great horse raiders - going as far as Crow Reservation.
- Dimensions
- 20 3/4 x 14 3/4 in.
- Credit Line
- Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK. Gift of the Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, 1955.
- Accession Number
- 0137.490
- Subjects
-
Blackfoot,
portrait
The artist; [?]; Dr. Philip G. Cole, Tarrytown, NY; Thomas Gilcrease, Tulsa, OK, 1947; The Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, Tulsa, OK; present owner by gift 1955
According to extant exhibition records, Sharp painted among the Big Beaver family around 1905. This would conform with the painting's style and the signature type.
