Art of the Americas, Featuring the American West

Art of the Americas, Featuring the American West

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Property from a Private American Western Collector

Joseph Henry Sharp

The Harvest Dance of the Pueblo Indian

Session begins in

January 24, 05:00 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Bid

16,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private American Western Collector

Joseph Henry Sharp

1859 - 1953


The Harvest Dance of the Pueblo Indian

signed J.H. Sharp. and dated 93. (lower right); titled (on the reverse)

gouache en grisaille on paper laid down on board

20 by 30 in.

50.8 by 76.2 cm.

Executed in 1893.

Earl C. Adams, San Marino, California (acquired directly from the artist)

Dr. and Mrs. Van Kirke Nelson, Kalispell, Montana

Scottsdale Art Auction, 2 April 2005, lot 86

Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)

Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner

"The Pueblo Indian Dance," Harper's Weekly, vol. 37, no. 1981, New York, 14 October 1893, pp. 981-83, illustrated

Patricia Janis Broder, Taos: A Painter's Dream, Boston, 1980, no. 3, pp. 4-5, illustrated

Forrest Fenn, The Beat of the Drum and the Whoop of the Dance, Santa Fe, 1983, no. 1832, p. 325

Peter H. Hassrick, The Life & Art of Joseph Henry Sharp, Cody, Wyoming, 2018, pp. 7 and 10

San Francisco, The Old Mint; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, The West Remembered: Artists and Images 1873-1973, Selections from the Collection of Earl C. Adams, June 1973 - January 1974, no. 60, pp. 38 and 42, illustrated

Los Angeles, Gene Autry Museum, Native Americans: Five Centuries of Changing Images, November 1989 - March 1990, p. 225, illustrated