Oil painting

Museum number:
17-26
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.37
Description:
Chief White Grass.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Culture or time period:
Blackfoot
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:
height 45.72 centimeters and width 30.48 centimeters
Title:
untitled (Title Subject)
Comment:
Blackfoot. Label (missing from back) "Chief White Grass - Blackfoot. Small physically, but big in councils of his tribe. One of the Police Judges for petty offenses at the agency, tho. full of quiet humor." A sub-chief and medicine man of the Piegan. He later became a well-known Indian judge with the title Judge Shorty White Grass. Artist's price $250. Corrugated back board, cloudy film in two-thirds surface, remove from glass. One in a series from life in oil by J. H. Sharp, mainly Crow, Cheyenne, Blackfoot, Sioux, and Rio Grande Pueblo portraits.
Loans:
S1974-1975 #78: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology (April 2, 1975–April 2, 1975) and S1976-1977 #54: Charles M. Russell Museum (March 30, 1977–June 16, 1977)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Oil painting, accession number 17-26, described as Chief White Grass.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Oil painting, accession number 17-26, described as Chief White Grass.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Oil painting, accession number 17-26, described as Chief White Grass.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Oil painting, accession number 17-26, described as Chief White Grass.

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