Title: Taos Mountains
Medium: Oil on canvas
Style: Impressionist
Size: 13" x 16"
Frame Size: 20" x 23"
Age: 1900s
Condition: Good, no damage seen
good condition for its age.
Artist: Joseph Henry Sharp (1859 - 1953)
Joseph Henry Sharp was active/lived in New Mexico, California, Ohio. Joseph Sharp is known for Indian figure, landscape and still-life painting.

Throughout his life, Joseph Henry Sharp was dedicated to the arts. His passion for painting seemed to have no limits as he captured the landscape and history of the West with a tremendous and impressive repertoire of paintings.

The son of a merchant, Sharp was born in Bridgeport, Ohio. He became interested in art at an early age. Though orphaned at 13 and deaf by late childhood, his indomitable spirit allowed him to pursue his artistic studies in Cincinnati and in Europe. He became both technically proficient and, as many critics came to note, capable of portraying the humanity and spirit of his subjects.

A painting commission from Harper's Weekly followed an early trip to the West in 1892. Sharp marveled at the incredible landscapes, unique cultures, and vanishing ways of life. While later studying in Paris, he regaled fellow students Ernest Blumenschein and Bert Phillips with tales of Taos, directly influencing and inspiring their voyage west.

Sharp's accuracy in portraiture and attention to details make his work prized for its ethnographic authenticity and beauty alike. Theodore Roosevelt was so impressed with his talents that he had his Indian Commission build Sharp a studio at the Crow Agency near Little Big Horn, Montana, in 1901. Many of the portraits and scenes created there - over 200 - are now in public institutions, including the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. He won the Gold Medal at the Panama-California Exposition in 1915, and was a member of Salmagundi Club, the Society of Western Artists and the Artists' Guild of Chicago.

Sharp spent summers in Taos from 1902 until his permanent move there in 1912. He became known for his Taos Indian portraits, genre scenes, and especially firelight themes. He returned periodically throughout his life to the subject of indians gathered around a blazing fire, their shadows thrown back in high relief. The imagery ideally suited his deep interest in telling stories through his paintings - narratives portraying the lives of American Indians. Throughout his life, Sharp was inspired to create a faithful record of the changing Native American culture. For the next five decades, he created a vast body of work that has become integral in understanding the Taos experience. Sharp's dedication to his work inspired the eventual creation of the Taos Society of Artists in 1915. His bright, clear colors and incredible accuracy have left a memorable and vivid Southwest legacy.


Provenance:
Collection from Estate in New York


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good, no damage seen