Serial Number: ART0142
Valuation:
BHD 380
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Type:
Still life
Style:
Realism
Date:
Undated
Size:
25 x 30
Artist:
JH Sharp, American (27 September 1859 – 29 August 1953) Joseph Henry Sharp was an American painter and a founding member of the Taos Society of Artists, of which he is considered the Spiritual Father . He painted American Indian portraits and cultural life, as well as Western landscapes. President Theodore Roosevelt commissioned him to paint the portraits of 200 Native American warriors who survived the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
Over his lifetime, Sharp had produced around 10,500 works of art, including oil paintings, etchings, monotypes, pastels, and watercolors. Of these works, fully 7,800 are of Native American subjects, including 3,200 portraits.[1] He was a historian of the West as well as a painter, and helped to preserve the record of a way of life that was changing.
Reference http en.wikipedia.org wiki Joseph_Henry_Sharp
Status: Display
Description:
A vase of almost dried stems of flowers and a bowl of fruits, an oil on canvas painting by JH Sharp
