Joseph Henry Sharp, California Chrysanthemums, 1940
Joseph Henry Sharp
1859 - 1953
California Chrysanthemums, 1940
oil on canvas
signed lower right: JHSHARP
inscribed verso: Calif Chrysanthemums / painted nov. 1940 J.H.Sharp
20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm.), frame: 29 3/4 x 34 x 1 5/8 in. (75.6 x 86.4 x 4.1 cm.)
Private Collection, New Mexico
Joseph Henry Sharp was an American painter, often called the “spiritual father” of the Taos Society of Artists, renowned for intimate portraits of Native peoples and atmospheric scenes of Pueblo life. Born in Bridgeport, Ohio, he trained at the Cincinnati Art Academy, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, and the Académie Julian in Paris. After first visiting Taos in 1893, he split his working life between New Mexico and the Northern Plains (especially the Crow Agency in Montana), producing hundreds of portraits and camp interiors that combine careful ethnographic attention with a warm, luminous palette. A founding member of the Taos Society (1915), Sharp maintained studios at what is now the Couse–Sharp Historic Site in Taos. His paintings—Pueblo dancers, landscapes, interior night scenes lit by fire or lamplight, and finely observed likenesses of Crow, Blackfeet, and Pueblo sitters—are held by major museums and helped define the early 20th-century image of the Southwest.
Condition
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Joseph Henry Sharp
1859 - 1953
California Chrysanthemums, 1940
oil on canvas
signed lower right: JHSHARP
inscribed verso: Calif Chrysanthemums / painted nov. 1940 J.H.Sharp
20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm.), frame: 29 3/4 x 34 x 1 5/8 in. (75.6 x 86.4 x 4.1 cm.)
Private Collection, New Mexico
Joseph Henry Sharp was an American painter, often called the “spiritual father” of the Taos Society of Artists, renowned for intimate portraits of Native peoples and atmospheric scenes of Pueblo life. Born in Bridgeport, Ohio, he trained at the Cincinnati Art Academy, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, and the Académie Julian in Paris. After first visiting Taos in 1893, he split his working life between New Mexico and the Northern Plains (especially the Crow Agency in Montana), producing hundreds of portraits and camp interiors that combine careful ethnographic attention with a warm, luminous palette. A founding member of the Taos Society (1915), Sharp maintained studios at what is now the Couse–Sharp Historic Site in Taos. His paintings—Pueblo dancers, landscapes, interior night scenes lit by fire or lamplight, and finely observed likenesses of Crow, Blackfeet, and Pueblo sitters—are held by major museums and helped define the early 20th-century image of the Southwest.
Condition
A condition report for this lot is available upon request (please include the lot number in your request) and is provided by Santa Fe Art Auction as a courtesy and convenience for potential buyers.
