JOSEPH HENRY SHARP (American, 1859-1953) Bawling Deer, Firelight and Daylight (20 1/16 x 16 1/8 ...

JOSEPH HENRY SHARP (American, 1859-1953) Bawling Deer, Firelight and Daylight signed 'JHSHARP' (lower left); titled (on the stretcher) oil on canvas 20 1/16 x 16 1/8 in (51.0 x 41.0 cm)framed 27 1/2 x 23 1/2 x 2 in (70.0 x 59.7 x 5.0 cm) Footnotes: Provenance Northfield Auctions, Northfield, Massachusetts, August 6, 2007. A Newport, Rhode Island, estate. N.B. While Joseph Henry Sharp spent most of his artistic career painting scenes and portraits from the American West, his early artistic training occurred primarily in Europe. He studied in Munich, Antwerp, Paris, and Italy before returning to his home state of Ohio in 1890. There he and twelve others formed the Cincinnati Art Club. He developed an interest in painting scenes of Native American people and life after an 1893 trip to Taos, New Mexico, and a later trip to Big Horn County, Montana, where he painted portraits of members of the Crow, Sioux, and Nez Perce tribes. These portraits were exhibited in 1900 in Washington, D.C. and later some were purchased by the Smithsonian Institution. In 1905 President Theodore Roosevelt commissioned Sharp to paint portraits of Native American survivors of the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Sharp initially lived part time in both Montana and Ohio before moving to Montana permanently when Phoebe Hearst, the mother of William Randolph Hearst, purchased eighty of the portraits and commissioned 75 more. In 1912 Sharp moved to Taos, New Mexico, where he and artist E. Irving Couse founded the Taos Society of Artists. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing