180 (original number) and H-580 (UC inventory number)
Accession number:
Acc.174
Description:
Oil painting of group of seventeen Indians in foreground, one playing drum, other individuals and Taos Pueblo in background, yellow sky.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Taos Pueblo, Taos County, New Mexico
Culture or time period:
Taos
Maker or artist:
Joseph Henry Sharp and Joseph Henry Sharp
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Materials:
Oil paint (paint) and Paint (coating)
Place depicted:
Taos Pueblo, Taos County, New Mexico
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Drums (membranophones) and Oil paintings (visual works)
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Production date:
1899
Accession date:
1905
Department:
Drawings and paintings
Dimensions:
collar storage box— length 43 inches, work in centimeters— height 73.5 centimeters, collar storage box— depth 2.5 inches, work without frame— length 35.25 inches, frame— height 35.25 inches, collar storage box— height 36 inches, work without frame— height 28.5 inches, work in centimeters— width 91.5 centimeters, and frame— length 42.25 inches
Title:
Evening Chant (Title Subject)
Comment:
Taos Southwest Pueblo, U.S. Stretcher has blue stamp "Traxel & Maas, Art Store, 206 W. Fourth St., Cincinnati, O." UC inventory #H-580 on bottom front of frame, original number 180 on glass frame. This painting returned to LMA in 1977 from the Hearst Mining Building, picked up by Dave Herod from James Moynihan.
Loans:
S1989-1990 #12: Cowboy Hall of Fame (January 8, 1990–July 17, 1991), S2016-2017 #2: Western Spirit: Scottsdale's Museum of the West (November 30, 2016–May 15, 2017), and S2021-2022 #4: Denver Art Museum (February 13, 2023–June 6, 2023)