Oil painting

Museum number:
17-40
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.37 and Acc.50
Description:
Little-Wolf.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Culture or time period:
Cheyenne
Maker or artist:
Joseph Henry Sharp
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Oil paintings (visual works)
Accession date:
January 2, 1902 and November 12, 1902
Department:
Drawings and paintings
Dimensions:
height 34.925 centimeters and width 24.13 centimeters
Title:
untitled (Title Subject)
Comment:
Cheyenne. Label "Little Wolf - Cheyenne. A very fine, dignified and admirable character, an important councilor, and nephew of the Great Little Wolf." Artist's price $200. Dent in paint layer one quarter inch long on top of head. One in a series from life in oil by J. H. Sharp, mainly Crow, Cheyenne, Blackfoot, Sioux, and Rio Grande Pueblo portraits.
Loans:
S1976-1977 #54: Charles M. Russell Museum (March 30, 1977–June 16, 1977) and S1989-1990 #12: Cowboy Hall of Fame (January 8, 1990–July 17, 1991)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Oil painting, accession number 17-40, described as Little-Wolf.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Oil painting, accession number 17-40, described as Little-Wolf.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Oil painting, accession number 17-40, described as Little-Wolf.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Oil painting, accession number 17-40, described as Little-Wolf.

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