2025 Coeur d’Alene Art Auction / Lot 207207 / 354 • View Catalog •
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VERSO
Label, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
According to Laura A. Davies, in a 1922 article titled An Indian Painter in the West, Sharp would sometimes paint his subjects illuminated by firelight. Davies described his process: “When the cool days of fall begin to arrive he has a roaring fire built in the big fireplace in his Taos studio. He groups his figures around it in their natural attitudes at their familiar tasks or pastimes and the stage is set for a masterpiece. While painting he is always alert to catch the easy, graceful pose of unconscious actions, and his figures never show stiff, conventional attitudes. He can put as much of the finer, more elusive emotions into the bodily pose as into the facial expression.”
PROVENANCE
Vern Milligan, Castle Rock, Colorado, ca. 1995
Present owner, by descent
