- Artist
- Joseph Henry Sharp
- Date
- ca. 1903; [1898]
- Catalogue Number
- 450
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Inscriptions
LR: J.H.SHARP.
LR: Penciled on verso: 1898-1900 Chief Rain the Face Sioux.
Penciled on notepaper glued on verso: Rain in the Face - Sioux. With Gall, the two great Chiefs in the Custer Battle. 1894-6.J.H.SHARP.
- Dimensions
- 20 x 13 1/2 in.
- Credit Line
- Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK. Gift of the Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, 1955.
- Accession Number
- 0137.489
- Subjects
-
Chief,
Sioux,
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
Rain in the Face died in the fall of 1905. This was probably painted from life, but the signature type on this portrait suggests a date after 1902.
Sharp did a second portrait of Rain in the Face in about 1903. (see related image, #451)