Oil painting

Museum number:
17-14
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.37
Description:
Bear-in-the-Cloud.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Culture or time period:
Crow
Maker or artist:
Joseph Henry Sharp
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Oil paintings (visual works)
Accession date:
January 2, 1902
Department:
Drawings and paintings
Dimensions:
width 30.48 centimeters and height 45.72 centimeters
Title:
untitled (Title Subject)
Comment:
Crow. Label (now detached) "Bear-in-the-Cloud - Crow. Fine type of the well-fed Indian. A hard, industrious worker on the farm, inveterate gambler, jolly good fellow, full of dignity, force and reliability." Artist's price $200. Extremely bad case of bloom. Frame stamped: Peleyer pat. Feb. 2nd, 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 17-14, described as Bear-in-the-Cloud.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Oil painting, accession number 17-14, described as Bear-in-the-Cloud.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Oil painting, accession number 17-14, described as Bear-in-the-Cloud.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Oil painting, accession number 17-14, described as Bear-in-the-Cloud.

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