The Life & Art of Joseph Henry Sharp
The newest edition in the Whitney West series and the companion volume to The Joseph Henry Sharp Online Catalogue features fresh scholarship from five authors: Peter H. Hassrick, Marie Watkins, Sarah E. Boehme, Kelin Michael, and Karen E. McWhorter. They discuss Sharp’s consuming wanderlust, rich aesthetic contributions, multiple studios, home and workplace at Crow Agency, Montana, and European training. Sharp’s muse was the American Indian of the West, and for fifty years his art made ground-breaking contributions to help the nation understand and honor the true nature of Native peoples and their lifeways.
The Life & Art of Joseph Henry Sharp is available through the University of Oklahoma Press and Points West Market at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West.
Books/Chapters
*“A Biographical Sketch of Joseph Henry Sharp.” In The National Cyclopedia of American Biography. James T. White & Company, Publishers: New York, 1901.
“An Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Joseph Henry Sharp, September 25 through December 1949.” Tulsa, OK: Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, 1949.
Bickerstaff, Laura M. Pioneer Artists of Taos. 2nd Edition. Denver: Old West Publishing Co., 1983.
*Boehme, Sarah E. Absarokee Hut: The Joseph Henry Sharp Cabin. Cody, WY: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, 1992.
*-------. “The North and Snow: J.H. Sharp in Montana,” Montana: The Magazine of Western History (Autumn 1990): 32-47.
*Boeller, Susanne. “Two American Painters in Munich: Walter Ufer and E. Martin Hennings.” In A Place in the Sun: The Southwest Painting of Walter Ufer and E. Martin Hennings, by Thomas Brent Smith, 7-19. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016.
*Carter, Denny. Henry Farny. New York, NY: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1978.
Coke, Van Deren. Taos and Santa Fe: The Artist’s Environment, 1882-1942. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press for the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth, TX and the Art Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1963.
*Dentzel, Carl Schaefer. Joseph Henry Sharp and the Lure of the West. Great Falls: C.M. Russell Museum, 1980.
Eldredge, Charles C., Julie Schimmel, and William H. Truettner. Art in New Mexico, 1900-1945: Paths to Taos and Santa Fe. Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; New York: Abbeville Press, 1986.
Fenn, Forest. Teepee Smoke – A New Look Into the Life and Work of Joseph Henry Sharp. Santa Fe, NM: One Horse and Land Cattle Co., 2007.
*Foley, Brigitte M. A Retrospective Exhibition of the Work of Joseph Henry Sharp, Pan Gallery.
*-------. “Joseph H. Sharp’s Cincinnati and Oscar E. Berninghaus’s St. Louis: The City as Patron.” Masters Thesis.
Fowler, Loretta. Arapaho Politics, 1851-1978: Symbols in Crises of Authority. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982.
Gerdts, William H. “New Hope Among the Impressionist Colonies.” In Pennsylvania Impressionism, edited by Brian H. Peterson, 71-90. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.
*Grafe, Steven L. Lanterns on the Prairie: The Blackfeet Photographs of Walter McClintock. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009.
*Guheen, Elizabeth. The Charles M. Bair Family Museum Collection. Martinsdale, MT: Charles M. Bair Family Museum, 2011.
Hassrick, Peter H. and others. The Life & Art of Joseph Henry Sharp. Cody, WY: Buffalo Bill Center of the West, 2019.
*Hassrick, Peter H. and Elizabeth J. Cunningham. In Contemporary Rhythm: The Art of Ernest L. Blumenschein. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008.
Hoxie, Frederick E. The Crow. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1989.
*Leavitt, Virginia Couse. Eanger Irving Couse: Image Maker for America. Albuquerque, NM: The Albuquerque Museum, 1991.
Lowie, Robert H. The Crow Indians. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1935.
*Luhan, Mabel Dodge. Taos and its Artists. New York, NY: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1947.
*Meyn, Susan Labry. Henry Farny Paints the West. Cincinnati, OH: Cincinnati Art Museum, 2007.
*Milsten, David Randolph. Thomas Gilcrease. San Antonio, TX: The Naylor Company, 1969.
Minckler, Thomas. In Poetic Silence: The Floral Paintings of Joseph Henry Sharp. Settlers West Galleries, 2010.
*Neuhaus, Robert. Unsuspected Genius: The Art and Life of Frank Duveneck. San Francisco, CA: Bedford Press, 1987.
Peters, Lisa N. John Henry Twachtman: An American Impressionist. Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 1999.
*Porter, Dean A. Victor Higgins: An American Master. Salt Lake City, UT: Peregrine Smith Books, 1991.
Porter, Dean, Teresa Hayes Ebie, and Suzan Campbell. Taos Artists and Their Patrons: 1898-1950. Notre Dame, IN: Snite Museum of Art, 1999.
Proctor, Alexander Phimister. Sculptor in Buckskin: The Autobiography of Alexander Phimister Proctor. Edited by Katharine C. Ebner. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971.
Riebeth, Carolyn Reynolds. J.H. Sharp among the Crow Indians 1902-1910. El Segundo, California: Upton and Sons, 1985.
*-------. “Some Memories of J. H. Sharp.” Billings, MT: Parmly Billings Library, 1969.
*Sanders, Gordon E. Oscar E. Berninghaus, Taos, NM: Master Painter of American Indians and the Frontier West. Taos, NM: Taos Heritage Publishing Company, 1985.
*Sandweiss, Martha A. “Undecisive Moments: The Narrative Tradition in Western Photography.” In Photography in Nineteenth-Century America, edited by Martha A. Sandweiss, 99-129. Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum, 1991.
*Schimmel, Julie and Robert R. White. Bert Geer Phillips and the Taos Art Colony. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1994.
Sharp, Joseph Henry. “An Artist among the Indians,” Brush and Pencil, 4 (April 1899): 1-7.
-------. “Corn or Harvest Dance,” Harper’s Weekly, 10/14/1893
*Smith, Sherry L. Reimagining Indians: Native Americans through Anglo Eyes, 1880-1940. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Taggett, Sherry Clayton and Ted Schwarz. Paintbrushes and Pistols: How the Taos Artists Sold the West. Santa Fe, NM: John Muir Publications, 1990.
*Trenton, Patricia. Catalogue for Picturesque Images from Taos and Santa Fe. Denver, CO: The Denver Art Museum, 1974.
*Troccoli, Joan Carpenter. Troccoli, Joan Carpenter. “J.H. Sharp.” Persimmon Hill, XVIII (Winter 1990): 8-15.
*-------. Painters and the American West. Denver, CO: Denver Art Museum, 2000.
*-------. Painters and the American West: Volume II. Denver, CO: American Museum of Western Art, 2013.
* Vitz, Robert C. The Queen and the Arts: Cultural Life in 19th Century Cincinnati. Kent State University Press: 1989.
*White, Robert R. The Taos Society of Artists. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1998.
*Waechter, Ashley. The Art of Elbridge Ayer Burbank from the Harold and Bonnie Julsen Collection. Santa Fe, NM: Gerald Peters Gallery, 2005.
*Watkins, Marie. “Joseph Henry Sharp: “Painter of Indians” (1859-1953).” Unpublished Manuscript.
*-------. Joseph Henry Sharp: The Early Years, 1874-1903. Manuscript in Preparation.
*-------. “Painting the American Indian at the Turn of the Century: Joseph Henry Sharp and his Patrons, William H. Holmes, Phoebe A. Hearst, and Joseph G. Butler.” PhD diss., Florida State University, 2000.
* Weber, Bruce. “Frank Duveneck and the Art Life of Cincinnati, 1865-1900.” In The Golden Age: Cincinnati Painters of the Nineteenth Century Represented in the Cincinnati Art Museum, 23-33. Cincinnati Art Museum: Cincinnati, OH, 1979.
Wierich, Jochen. Enchanted Visions: The Taos Society of Artists. Spokane: Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, 2005.
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*Cole, Alphaeus P. “An Adolescent in Paris: The Adventure of Being an Art Student Abroad in the Late 19th Century.” American Art Journal, Vol. 8, No. 2 (November 1976): 111-115.
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*Jellico, John. “Joseph H. Sharp, 1859-1953.” Artists of the Rockies and the Golden West, VII (Spring 1980): 90-99.
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