Winter Sports

or
Winter Sports, Crow Reservation

Generously provided by Gilcrease Museum
Artist
Joseph Henry Sharp
Date
ca. 1910; [ca. 1890]
Catalogue Number
59
Medium
oil on canvas board
Inscriptions
LR: JHSHARP.
 
Inscribed on dust cover: Winter Sports (throwing darts) Crow Reservation within few miles of Custer Battlefield Blackfeet visitors.
Dimensions
29 3/4 x 42 in.
Credit Line
Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK. Gift of the Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, 1955.
Accession Number
0137.298
Subjects
Crow, camp, reservation, teepee, winter

The artist; [Blue Door Gallery, Taos, NM]; Thomas Gilcrease, Tulsa, OK, 1945; The Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, Tulsa, OK, 1955; present owner by gift

This was an important early Sharp acquisition for Gilcrease. The Blue Door Gallery in Taos was operated by Margaret Berg and her husband. After Gilcrease bought this work from Berg, he met Sharp. Subsequently, Berg helped Sharp select over 75 works for the Oklahoma patron to consider. (see Porter, 1999, 177)