Garden of the Copper Bell

Generously provided by Montana Museum of Art and Culture
Artist
Joseph Henry Sharp
Date
after 1910
Catalogue Number
739
Medium
oil on board
Inscriptions

LR: J.H.SHARP

Dimensions
20 x 30 in.
Credit Line
Montana Museum of Art and Culture, Missoula, MT
Accession Number
49-537
Subjects
Taos, garden, landscape, studio

The artist; [?]; Fra Dana, Parkman, Montana; present owner by gift

The "Copper Bell" refers to Sharp's first Taos studio, established in 1910 in an old church and in active use from 1912 until 1915 when he built another studio within his compound and turned the first one into a storage building. The Bell Chapel, as he called it, still stands today. This garden was just outside that original studio.