width 30.48 centimeters and height 45.72 centimeters
Title:
untitled (Title Subject)
Comment:
Two Moons, a band chief who was appointed as the major Cheyenne chief by the U.S. Government after the surrender of the Cheyenne. He was prominent in the battle of the Little Bighorn and later became a member of the Cheyenne scouts in the U.S. Army. Two Moons was one of the three Plains Indians used as a model for the famous "buffalo-head" nickel. Painted in Deer, Montana. Artist's price $300. Backed with corrugated board, area of white milky film in hair on sitter's right, bloom, painting framed directly against glass. 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)