Red Stone Pipe

or
[Chant to the Redstone Pipe]; John & Jerry—Chant to Pipe

Artist
Joseph Henry Sharp
Date
ca. 1926; [early 20th century]
Catalogue Number
504
Medium
oil on linen
Inscriptions
LR: JHSHARP
 
Inscribed on verso: "Fire light and twilight -- interior of lodge or tepee Indian painted elk skin back of figures, war bonnet was in Custer battle."
Dimensions
20 1/4 x 16 1/8 in.
Credit Line
Museum of the Southwest, Midland, TX
Accession Number
1980.009.014
Subjects
Taos, chant, drum, firelight, interior, pipe

The artist; H. C. G. Tyrrell, Tulsa, OK, 1928; [?]; Fred T. and Novadean Hogan; present owner by gift, 1980

This is probably the painting, Red Stone Pipe, Sharp exhibited in Indian Paintings at The Schroeder Galleries in Pasadena in February 1927. Another related painting titled Jerry with the Redstone Pipe (Record 619) was presented in November that year in an exhibition titled Indians and Other Paintings at the Traxel Art Galleries in Cincinnati.  According to Sharp's sales ledgers from 1928, a painting titled John & Jerry - Chant to the Pipe sold to a Tulsa individual, H. C. G. Tyrrell. (Sharp Papers)