2021 Coeur d’Alene Art Auction / Lot 192
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Joseph Henry Sharp (1859 – 1953)
Firelight Drummer
oil on canvas laid on board
9 × 7 inches
signed lower right
VERSO
Signed, titled, and “#135”
Inscribed, “Firelight Drummer – Pueblo of Taos NM, Bawling Deer – J.H. Sharp”
PROVENANCE
The artist, gifted to
Miss Margaret McVean, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Miss Francis McVean, by descent, gifted to
Mr. & Mrs. Howard Self
Jim Sullivan, Spokane, Washington
Coeur d’Alene Art Auction, Reno, Nevada, 2008
Private collection, Reno, Nevada
EXHIBITED
Enchanted Visions: The Taos Society of Artists & Ancient Cultures, Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, Spokane, Washington, 2005
LITERATURE
Nan Sheets, It’s the Firelight Drummer, The Daily Oklahoman, 1935, illustrated
Enchanted Visions, Washington State Historical Society, 2005, p. 11, illustrated