Joseph Henry Sharp (1859-1953)
Lot 83 Property of the Saint Louis Art Museum, Sold to Benefit the Acquisitions Fund

Joseph Henry Sharp (1859-1953)

The Chief's Sweat Bath, Crow Reservation, Montana

Closed21 November 2017

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Joseph Henry Sharp (1859-1953)
The Chief's Sweat Bath, Crow Reservation, Montana
signed 'JH Sharp.' (lower right)--inscribed with title (on the backing board)
oil on canvas
24 x 36 in. (61 x 91.4 cm.)
Painted circa 1910-16.

Elsie A. Kuhn, St. Louis, Missouri.
By bequest to the present owner from the above, 1981.

Specialist note

We would like to thank Professor Marie Watkins of Furman University for her assistance with cataloguing this lot.


The present work is inscribed by the artist on the backing board: "The Chief's Sweat Bath - Crow Reservation, Mont./Two miles from Custer Battlefield/The large teepee (buffalo, elk, deer)/the last skin teepee owned by U.S. Indians/now in museum, Los Angeles."