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Joseph Henry Sharp. Joseph Henry Sharp (September 27, 1859 – August 29, 1953) was an American painter and a founding member of the Taos Society of Artists, of which he is considered the "Spiritual Father". [1] Sharp was one of the earliest European-American artists to visit Taos, New Mexico, which he saw in 1893 with artist John Hauser. [2]
Joseph Henry Sharp. born Bridgeport, OH 1859-died Pasadena, CA 1953. Born in Ohio, studied in Europe, lived in California and New Mexico. The father of the artists' colony at Taos, starting in 1912, he specialized in portraits of Indians and larger paintings of Indian life, some of which are now at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
- September 27, 1859
- August 29, 1953
Joseph Henry Sharp (27 September 1859 – 29 August 1953) lived a long life and had a prolific career as a painter best known for his realistic portrayal of the American Indians. However, recent writing illuminates his significant body of work of still life painting as well. Sharp was born in Bridgeport, Ohio to Irish immigrant parents.
In 1949, the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma, mounted a retrospective of Sharp’s paintings, and still holds the largest collection in the world of the artist’s work. At age 93, Joseph Henry Sharp closed his studio in Taos. He intended to return the following year but fell ill, and died in August 1953 in Pasadena.
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One catalyst who sounded the call, Joseph Henry Sharp, was so united with the artistic life, and so committed to recording the history of a vanishing culture, that he helped to create a new one. In 1883, when trains were young and horse-drawn rigs the mode of transportation, Henry Sharp first experienced the lure of the Territory of New Mexico.
Joseph Henry Sharp, The War Bonnet Maker, Circa 1930, Oil on Canvas, 25″ x 30″. Sharp was born in Bridgeport, Ohio on September 27, 1859 to Irish parents. His father was a local merchant. From his earliest days, Sharp was fascinated by anything he could learn about the American Indians.
Online Catalogue. The Ricketts Art Foundation, The Buffalo Bill Center of the West, The Lunder Research Center at the Couse-Sharp Historic Site, and the Gilcrease Museum present this companion online catalogue to the book The Life & Art of Joseph Henry Sharp. The searchable catalogue inclues 700+ paintings in public collections.
