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Joseph Henry Sharp (1859 – 1953)
Afternoon Shadows – Taos (circa 1920)
oil on canvas
20 × 16 inches
signed lower right

Copies of letters from Sharp scholar Marie Watkins, and Virginia Couse Leavitt discussing this painting will accompany the lot.

Afternoon Shadows depicts the garden at Sharp’s home on Kit Carson Road.

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Joseph Henry Sharp

1859 – 1953

Afternoon Shadows – Taos (circa 1920)
oil on canvas
20 × 16 inches
signed lower right
Sold at Auction: $29,750
Condition ReportSurface condition is very good. About a one-and-a-half inch hairline crack in upper-left corner. Two pinholes in all four corners (totaling eight pinholes). No signs of restoration.

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