Oil painting

Museum number:
17-25
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Accession number:
Acc.37
Description:
Chief Four-Horns.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Culture or time period:
Blackfoot
Maker or artist:
Joseph Henry Sharp
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Place depicted:
Blackfoot Reservation, Canada
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Oil paintings (visual works)
Accession date:
January 2, 1902
Department:
Drawings and paintings
Dimensions:
height 35.243 centimeters and width 24.13 centimeters
Title:
untitled (Title Subject)
Comment:
Blackfoot. Label (from Traxel & Maas) "Chief Four Hands - Blackfoot. A very handsome young warrior years ago, influential and of serious dignity now." Artist's price $200. Crushed impasto. 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 17-25, described as Chief Four-Horns.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Oil painting, accession number 17-25, described as Chief Four-Horns.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Oil painting, accession number 17-25, described as Chief Four-Horns.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Oil painting, accession number 17-25, described as Chief Four-Horns.

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