Oil painting

Museum number:
17-52
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
23-151; 151 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.37 and Acc.50
Description:
Chief Spotted-Elk.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Culture or time period:
Teton Dakota
Maker or artist:
Joseph Henry Sharp
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Place depicted:
Sioux, North Dakota
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Oil paintings (visual works)
Accession date:
January 2, 1902 and November 12, 1902
Department:
Drawings and paintings
Dimensions:
width 24.448 centimeters and height 34.925 centimeters
Title:
untitled (Title Subject)
Comment:
Sioux (Teton Dakota, Pine Ridge, South Dakota). Was a delegate to Washington, D.C. a number of times. Had a medal presented to him by Pres. Ulysses Grant. Artist's price $175. One in a series from life in oil by J. H. Sharp, mainly Crow, Cheyenne, Blackfoot, Sioux, and Rio Grande Pueblo portraits.
Loans:
S1969-1970 #86: University of California Library (February 16, 1970–March 17, 1970), 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 17-52, described as Chief Spotted-Elk.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Oil painting, accession number 17-52, described as Chief Spotted-Elk.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Oil painting, accession number 17-52, described as Chief Spotted-Elk.

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