VERSO
Label, J. N. Bartfield Galleries, New York, New York
Label, Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Sharp biographer Forrest Fenn, in his study Teepee Smoke: A New Look Into the Life and Work of Joseph Henry Sharp, examined the artist’s relocation to a more permanent home in New Mexico and the shift it prompted in his artistic approach: “If the Taos Indians and their culture had seemed less romantic to Sharp than the Indians of the North, he soon found the way to compensate: he learned to ‘clothe’ them in his moods, bringing them to life by using firelight to create a haunting atmosphere.”

PROVENANCE
Biltmore Galleries, Los Angeles, California
Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
J. N. Bartfield Galleries, New York, New York
Diane and Sam Stewart Collection, Salt Lake City, Utah
Bonhams, Los Angeles, California, 2021
Private collection, London, England

EXHIBITED
Bierstadt to Warhol: American Indians in the West, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, 2013

LITERATURE
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, pp. 211, 322, 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. 52, illustrated