Wolf Ear, Sioux

ca. 1900

Not on view

After studying art in his native Ohio and in Europe, Sharp traveled regularly to the American West, eventually settling there and keeping studios in New Mexico and Montana. He became known for his depictions of Native American life, and over his career completed more than two hundred portraits of Indigenous peoples. Around 1900 Sharp first visited the Oglala Lakota (Teton Sioux) in South Dakota. Wolf Ear, a favorite model, appeared in some eighteen paintings. Sharp used this profile portrait as the basis for an etching as well as a cover illustration for "Sunset" magazine in 1903.

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Title: Wolf Ear, Sioux
Artist: Joseph H. Sharp (1859–1953)
Date: ca. 1900
Culture: American
Medium: Oil and mixed media on paper
Dimensions: 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Framed: 16 5/8 × 13 9/16 × 1 7/8 in. (42.2 × 34.4 × 4.8 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Sewell C. Biggs, 1983
Object Number: 1983.397
Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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