Night Gigging

or
Spearing Fish; Spear Fishing—Montana

Generously provided by Gilcrease Museum

Artist

Joseph Henry Sharp

Date

1910 / 1948

Catalogue Number

386

Medium

oil on canvas

Inscriptions

LR: J.H.SHARP.

In ink on notepaper attached to dust cover: "Night 'Gigging'-(Spearing fish) I used to do this and know considerable about it. Get a thrill when an eel or water snake/ wraps around one's leg! Early night has a lot of fine subdued & tonal color, particularly if one is out quite awhile and observes. Early 1910 Much repainted 1948 J.H.Sharp."

Dimensions: 35 13/16 x 40 9/16 in.
Credit Line: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK. Gift of the Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, 1955.
Accession Number: 0137.330
Subjects: Montana

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

This may be the painting Sharp offered for sale in 1929 as Spear Fishing - Montana at his last Traxel Art Galleries exhibition in Cincinnati.

A related study (#386a), painted in full daylight, exists but does not incorporate the fishermen.

Night Gigging

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