Oil painting

Museum number:
17-31
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21170000031
Alternate number:
137 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.37 and Acc.50
Description:
Oil painting of Chief Little Wolf.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Production place:
Crow Agency, Big Horn County, Montana
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 45.72 centimeters and width 30.48 centimeters
Title:
untitled (Title Subject)
Comment:
Cheyenne. Painted in Crow Agency, Montana. Label "Chief Little Wolf, considered the greatest fighter of all the Indians." Artist's price $300. Purple stamp on left side of frame in back - "The Peleger Pat. Feb. 1886." 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)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Oil painting, accession number 17-31, described as Oil painting of Chief Little Wolf.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Oil painting, accession number 17-31, described as Oil painting of Chief Little Wolf.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Oil painting, accession number 17-31, described as Oil painting of Chief Little Wolf.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Oil painting, accession number 17-31, described as Oil painting of Chief Little Wolf.

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