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拍品专文
Please note the present work is featured in Lot 85 by William Acheff.
We would like to thank Professor Marie Watkins of Furman University for her assistance with cataloguing this lot.
Considered by many to be the 'father of the Taos art colony,' Joseph Henry Sharp is celebrated for his detailed and extensive depictions of the dozens of tribes of the Southwestern and Plains Indians. Born in Ohio in 1859, Sharp attended the Cincinnati Art Academy, where he met fellow artist Henry Farny. In 1893, encouraged by Farny, Sharp first visited Taos and the Pueblo Indians there. His experiences and illustrations from the trip, later published in Harper's Weekly, formed the basis of a career devoted to the American landscape and the native people who lived there.
As depicted in the present work, a favorite subject for Sharp was the rabbit hunt, when several Indian men and boys would ride out to the mesa, armed with bow and arrows, to hunt rabbits for an upcoming feast and dance. The Cincinnati Enquirer praised the artist's execution of one such scene: "None other than Mr. Sharp can paint with such vividness or authority these picturesque Southwest Indians. In his pictures this Indian note which occurs repeatedly becomes a signature: his treatment, so distinctly his own, is never forced; it makes all things fit consistently into his compositions. He delights in painting landscapes and he introduces them again and again into his Indian pieces, and when a canvas may be filled with a fine extended view often a glimpse of a group of Indians wrapped in their blankets may triumphantly creep in. Such a one is 'Rabbit Hunters': there the light envelopes all in a conquering embrace and the Indian remains but an incident in the landscape." (November 26, 1933)
We would like to thank Professor Marie Watkins of Furman University for her assistance with cataloguing this lot.
Considered by many to be the 'father of the Taos art colony,' Joseph Henry Sharp is celebrated for his detailed and extensive depictions of the dozens of tribes of the Southwestern and Plains Indians. Born in Ohio in 1859, Sharp attended the Cincinnati Art Academy, where he met fellow artist Henry Farny. In 1893, encouraged by Farny, Sharp first visited Taos and the Pueblo Indians there. His experiences and illustrations from the trip, later published in Harper's Weekly, formed the basis of a career devoted to the American landscape and the native people who lived there.
As depicted in the present work, a favorite subject for Sharp was the rabbit hunt, when several Indian men and boys would ride out to the mesa, armed with bow and arrows, to hunt rabbits for an upcoming feast and dance. The Cincinnati Enquirer praised the artist's execution of one such scene: "None other than Mr. Sharp can paint with such vividness or authority these picturesque Southwest Indians. In his pictures this Indian note which occurs repeatedly becomes a signature: his treatment, so distinctly his own, is never forced; it makes all things fit consistently into his compositions. He delights in painting landscapes and he introduces them again and again into his Indian pieces, and when a canvas may be filled with a fine extended view often a glimpse of a group of Indians wrapped in their blankets may triumphantly creep in. Such a one is 'Rabbit Hunters': there the light envelopes all in a conquering embrace and the Indian remains but an incident in the landscape." (November 26, 1933)