VERSO
Label, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Label, The Rees-Jones Collection, Dallas, Texas

Sharp biographer Forrest Fenn wrote, “Sharp’s elk skin with painted scorpion and beaded bullet holes was used as a prop in many of his interior tepee scenes. Chief Flat Iron gave the skin to the artist, who said it was the ‘best you can find in two days ride in any direction.’”

PROVENANCE
Private collection, Cincinnati Ohio
Kennedy Galleries, New York, New York
William Foxley’s Museum of Western Art, Denver, Colorado
Santa Fe Art Auction, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1994
Private collection, New York
Private collection, Dallas, Texas

LITERATURE
William C. Foxley, Frontier Spirit: Catalogue of the Collection of the Museum of Western Art, Museum of Western Art, 1983, pp. 206-07, illustrated
Forrest Fenn, The Beat of the Drum and the Whoop of the Dance: A Study of the Life and Work of Joseph Henry Sharp, Fenn Publishing Co., 1983, p. 183, illustrated
Forrest Fenn, Teepee Smoke: A New Look Into the Life and Work of Joseph H. Sharp, One Horse Land and Cattle Co., 2007, p. 181, illustrated

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