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Joseph Henry Sharp

Joseph Henry Sharp (1859 - 1953) was active/lived in New Mexico, California, Ohio.  Joseph Sharp is known for Indian figure, landscape and still-life painting.

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Born in Bridgeport, Ohio, Joseph Sharp was regarded as the "father of the Taos Art Colony," and was known for his Indian figure and genre painting as well as for exquisitely colorful landscapes.

He was one of the first Caucasian artists to visit New Mexico, arriving in Santa Fe in 1883.  He was also a visitor to Alaska, being one of the early artists who visited there after the purchase of the Territory.  Although Sharp was completely deaf from a childhood accident, he reportedly had a cheerful nature and was an avid traveler, always seeking learning experiences about other cultures.

From childhood he was interested in Indians, and at age fourteen, because of his deafness, left public school to study art in Cincinnati at the McMicken School and the Cincinnati Academy of Art.  His studio was in the same building as that of Henry Farny who gave him books on Pueblo Indians.

At age 22, Sharp went to Antwerp, Belgium where he studied with Charles Verlat   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 33038 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Joseph Henry Sharp

   Publications  Book References:  140
Magazine References:  49

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49 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Joseph Henry Sharp
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art & Auction Corralling the Western Art Market January 2007 Hanes, Elizabeth Yes
American Art Review The Taos Society of Artists August 2005 Wierich & Porter Yes
Art & Auction Best Western July 2005 Dorfman, John Yes
Art of the West Art From the West July 2005 Milburn, Carleen Yes
Plein Air Magazine The Cincinnati Art Club July 2005 Soderberg, Paul Yes
American Art Review The Blanton Museum of Art, C.R. Smi December 2004 Saunders, Richard H Yes
Art & Auction marketfile October 2004 Editors, Art+Auction Yes
Art of the West What's News September 2004 Editors, Art of the West Yes
Southwest Art News Beat-On the Scene July 2004 Editors, Southwest Art Yes
Southwest Art Art Events-Coast to Coast July 2004 Osterman, Julie Yes
American Art Review The Taos Art Museum & Fechin House April 2004 Porter, Dean A Yes
California Art Club Newsletter Still Life Painting in California February 2004 Adams, Elaine No
Southwest Art Art Events-New Mexico November 2003 Schneider, Wolf Yes
Southwest Art These Old Artist's Houses October 2003 Jackson, Devon Yes
Art of the West What's News September 2003 Editor, Art of the West Yes
Southwest Art On the Scene September 2003 Editor, Southwest Art Yes
Southwest Art Best of the West - New Mexico May 2003 Editors, Southwest Art Yes
Southwest Art Collecting Fever April 2003 Gangelhoff, Bonnie Yes
American Art Review Extraordinary Gifts from the Proct February 2003 Aronson, Julie Yes
Southwest Art The Artist at Home January 2003 Gangelhoff, Bonnie Yes
Southwest Art Recent Books October 2002 Editors, Southwest Art Yes
Southwest Art On the Scene September 2002 Editors, Southwest Art Yes
American Art Review Museum of the Southwest December 2001 Holeva, Daniel H Yes
Montana: Western History Flying Buffaloes' July 2001 Dippie, Brian W. No
Southwest Art On the Scene June 2001 Editors, Southwest Art Yes
Santa Fean Adobe Dream May 2001 Campbell, Virginia Yes
Art & Auction Marketplace February 2001 Editors, Art & Auction Yes
Southwest Art Lure of the West January 2001 Pastan, Amy Yes
American Art Review The American West: Out of Myth December 2000 Hassrick, Peter Yes
American Artist Saved Studios November 2000 May, Stephen Yes
American Art Review Painters and the American West October 2000 Troccoli, Joan Carpenter Yes
Southwest Art Top Artists Pick Rising Stars January 2000 Pyne, Lynn Yes
Southwest Art Masters of Western Art December 1999 Hagerty, Donald J Yes
Southwest Art Collectors Share a Passion for West October 1999 Gangelhoff, Bonnie Yes
American Art Review Taos Artists & Their Patrons August 1999 Campbell, Suzan Yes
American Art Review Taos Artists & Their Patrons June 1999 Campbell, Susan Yes
Southwest Art Trauma, Tradition, and Transformat May 1999 May, Stephen Yes
American Art Review The Founding of the Taos Art Colony April 1999 Zieselman, Ellen Yes
Southwest Art Winds of Change March 1999 May, Stephen Yes
American Art Review American Paintings in Georgia February 1999 Keyes, Donald No
Southwest Art Changing Times, Unchanging Visions February 1999 May, Stephen Yes
Southwest Art Taos/A Century of Art September 1998 Busler, Leslie Yes
American Art Review Cincinnati Schoolhouse Treasures April 1998 Kuntz, Barbara Yes
American Art Review The Lure of the West October 1997 Archer, Joan/A S Steeby Yes
Southwest Art A Winning Collection October 1997 Schackelford, Bruce Yes
Southwest Art Red Book Collections October 1996 SW editors Yes
Southwest Art To Build A Dream October 1995 Romero-Oak, Judy Yes
Southwest Art Best of the West August 1995 Methner, Ellen Rosenbush Yes
American Art Review Joseph Henry Sharp June 1995 Eldredge, Bruce Yes
140 Book References for Joseph Henry Sharp
Year Author Title Pages Color
2021 Peterson, Dr. Larry Len The American West Reimagined: Gems from the Coeur d'Alene Art Auction 528 Yes
2019 Peterson, Larry Len Blackfeet John L. "Cutapuis" Clarke and the Silent Call of Glacier National Park: America's Wood Sculptor 440 Yes
2014 Fahlman, Betsy (Editor) Southwest Art History Conference Abstracts, 1996-2013 217 Yes
2010 Fillmore, Gary Canyon Magic Landmark Art from the Picerne Collection
(Exhibition catalog)
77 Yes
2010 Minckler, Thomas In Poetic Silence: The Floral Paintings of Joseph Henry Sharp 226 Yes
2007 Fenn, Forrest Teepee Smoke: A New Look Into the Life and Work of Joseph Henry Sharp 355 Yes
2007 Hassrick, Peter H.; Elizabeth J. Cunningham In Contemporary Rhythm: The Art of Ernest L. Blumenschein
(Exhibition catalog)
0 Yes
2007 Scriver, Mary Strachan Bronze Inside and Out: A Biographical Memoir of Bob Scriver 368 No
2006 Udall, Sharyn R; Julie Schimmel (Introduction) Santa Fe Art Colony: Gerald Peters Gallery
(Exhibition catalog)
127 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2003 Clemmer, David Serenading the Light: Painters of the Desert Southwest (Collection of Billy Schenck) 120 Yes
2003 Tierney, Curtis (editor) Recounting the Old West II: Important Paintings, Sculpture and Works on Paper 71 Yes
2002 Hassrick, Peter H Drawn to Yellowstone: Artists in America's First National Park 248 Yes
2002 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California: 1786-1940 (Two Volumes)
Available For Sale.
1249 No
2002 Komanecky, Michael K. (editor) Phoenix Art Museum Collection Highlights 352 Yes
2002 Peterson, Larry Len The Call of the Mountains The Artists of Glacier National Park 144 Yes
2002 Vose, Marcia L. (editor) Vose Art Notes Tenth Anniversary Issue Art and Collecting in America: An Illustrated Timeline 37 Yes
2001 Spanierman, Deborah (essay) 110 Years of American Art:1830-1940 (Spanierman Galleries, LLC)
(Exhibition catalog)
136 Yes
2000 Blue, Martha Indian Trader: The Life and Times of J.L. Hubbell 356 No
2000 Brodell, James; Peter Occhiogrosso; Louis Zona (foreward) Gregory Perillo and the Masters of American Western Art 200 Yes
2000 Fine Art Dealers Association Los Angeles Art Show Fine Art Dealers Association Presents
(Exhibition catalog)
66 Yes
2000 Tierney, Curtis (Editor) Recounting the Old West: Gallery Selections-Thomas Nygard Gallery 44 Yes
2000 Troccoli, Joan Carpenter Painters and the American West: The Anschutz Collection 218 Yes
2000 Wilner, Eli et al The Gilded Edge 0 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Rehs, Howard (President) L.A. Art Show: Fine Art Dealer's Association
(Exhibition catalog)
96 Yes
1998 Bix, Cynthia New Mexico Art of the State 96 Yes
1998 McCann, Chris (Author); Louis Darling (Illustrator) Master Pieces The Art History of Jigsaw Puzzles 223 Yes
1998 Robert R. White, Editor The Taos Society of Artists 126 No
1997 Boehme, Sarah E Whitney Gallery of American Art 78 Yes
1997 Hagerty, Donald J Leading the West One Hundred Contemporary Painters & Sculptors 213 Yes
1997 Southwest Art Red Book Price Guide-1997 Western American Art 128 No
1996 Foley, Brigitte M A Retrospective Exhibition of the Work of Joseph Henry Sharp
(Exhibition catalog)
17 No
1996 Shipp, Steve American Art Colonies 1850-1930 A Guide to Original Art Colonies and Their Artists 159 No
1994 Schimmel, Julie Bert Geer Phillips and the Taos Art Colony 352 Yes
1994 Skolnick, Arnold/Suzan Campbell Paintings of the Southwest 128 No
1994 Sweetkind, Irene/W H Gerdts Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art 372 Yes
1993 Carr, Carolyn K Revisiting the White City American Art at the 1893 World's Fair
(Exhibition catalog)
408 Yes
1993 Ellis, Simone Santa Fe Art 112 Yes
1993 Southwest Art The Red Book Western American Price Index 126 No
1993 Southwest Art Master Index 1971-1993 Artists in Southwest Art 64 No
1993 Woodward, Kesler E Painting in the North Alaskan Art in the Anchorage Museum 160 Yes
1992 Boehme, Sarah E Absarokee Hut: The Joseph Henry Sharp Cabin 64 Yes
1992 Columbus Museum of Art A Nation's Legacy 150 Years of American Art from Ohio Collections
(Exhibition catalog)
198 Yes
1992 Curators, Buffalo Bill Center Treasures From Our West 57 Yes
1992 Forbes, David Encounters with Paradise Views of Hawaii and Its People 1778-1941 285 Yes
1992 Leeds, Valerie Ann Hidden Treasures American Paintings from Florida Colllections
(Exhibition catalog)
72 Yes
1992 Museum of Fine Arts Artists of 20th Century New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts Collection 167 Yes
1992 Stewart, Dr. Rick; Don Hedgpeth The American West: John F. Eulich Collection Legendary Artists of the Frontier
(Exhibition catalog)
56 Yes
1991 Cunningham, Elizabeth West West West Major Paintings from the Anschutz Collection 131 Yes
1991 D'Emilio, Sandra; Suzan Campbell Visions & Visionaries Art and Artists of the Santa Fe Railway 147 Yes
1991 Sweeney, J Gray Masterpieces of Western American Art 239 Yes
1990 Axelrod, Alan Art of the Golden West 418 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)
622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
1117 No
1990 Fink, Lois Marie; Albert Boime, Forward; Elizabeth Broun, Preface American Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons 430 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three 396 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two) 396 Yes
1990 Leavitt, Thomas (Intro); Richard Schwartz; Frank H.T. Rhodes Cornell Collects: A Celebration of American Art from the Collections of Alumni and Friends, Cornell University
(Exhibition catalog)
196 Yes
1990 Samuels, Peggy (others) Techniques of the Artists of the American West 252 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)
612 No
1989 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California, 1786-1940 637 No
1989 Rockwell Museum American Western Art 84 Yes
1989 Trenton, Patricia/P T Houlihan Native Americans Five Centuries of Changing Images 304 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Fees, Paul; Sarah E Boehme Frontier America: Art From Buffalo Bill Historical Center 128 Yes
1988 Saunders, Richard H Collecting the West The C R Smith Collection of Western American Art
(Exhibition catalog)
211 Yes
1987 Hassrick, Royal B History of Western American Art 192 Yes
1987 Sweeney, J Gray/J Ballinger The Lure of the West The Carl S Dentzel Collection of W American Art
(Exhibition catalog)
40 Yes
1987 Viola, Herman J; William H. Goetzmann (Intro) Exploring the West 256 Yes
1986 Eldredge, Charles/J Schimmel Art in New Mexico, 1900-1945 Paths to Taos and Santa Fe 218 Yes
1986 Goetzmann, William H; William N. Goetzmann The West of the Imagination 457 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1984 Gerald Peters Collection Masterworks of the Taos Founders
(Exhibition catalog)
84 Yes
1984 Hassrick, Peter H Treasures of the Old West Thomas Gilcrease Institute 127 Yes
1984 Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall Southern California Art Publication 3, Dictionary 291 No
1984 Schmitt, Victoria Sandwick Four Centuries of Sporting Art 165 No
1984 Witt, David L The Taos Artists A Historical and Biographical Dictionary 63 No
1983 Bickerstaff, Laura Pioneer Artists of Taos Revised, Expanded 227 No
1983 Cunningham, Elizabeth Masterpieces of the American West Selections from the Anschutz Collection 152 Yes
1983 Fenn, Forest The Beat of the Drum and the Whoop of the Dance (J H Sharp) 360 Yes
1983 Foxley, William Frontier Spirit: William Foxley Collection Museum of Western Art 200 Yes
1983 Gibson, Arrell Morgan The Santa Fe and Taos Colonies Age of The Muses, 1900-1942 305 No
1983 Murray, Richard N Art of the American West 74 Yes
1983 Peters, Gerald The Gerald Peters Collection A Selection of Paintings 96 Yes
1983 White, Robert R The Taos Society of Artists 126 No
1982 Dobbs, Joanne; Jerry A. Schefcik A Western American Vision of Art, History and Work Francis King Collection 52 Yes
1982 Hirschl & Adler Galleries Lines of Different Character Americn Art from 1727 to 1947
(Exhibition catalog)
106 Yes
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1982 Reeve, Kay Aiken Santa Fe and Taos 1898-1942 An American Cultural Center 56 No
1982 Trenton, Patricia The West as Art Western Art in Calfornia Collections
(Exhibition catalog)
197 Yes
1981 Anschutz Collection Painters of the American West Selections from the Anschutz Collection
(Exhibition catalog)
150 Yes
1981 Eiteljorg, Harrison Treasures of the American West Harrison Eiteljorg Collection 172 Yes
1981 Museum of Fine Arts Light & Color Images from New Mexico 94 Yes
1981 Parsons, James The Art Fever Passages through the Western Art Trade
(Exhibition catalog)
111 Yes
1980 Broder, Patricia Janis Taos: A Painter's Dream 321 Yes
1980 Nelson, Mary Carroll The Legendary Artists of Taos 176 Yes
1980 Phoenix Art Museum Painters in Taos Formative Years (Eiteljorg Collection)
(Exhibition catalog)
60 Yes
1979 Broder, Patricia Janis Great Paintings of the Old American West Thomas Gilcrease Institute Collection 155 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc) 730 No
1979 Myers, Fred The Treasures of Gilcrease (Tulsa OK) 106 Yes
1979 Rogers, Millard F Jr.; Denny Carter, Bruce Weber The Golden Age: Cincinnati Painters of the Nineteenth Century Represented in the Cincinnati Art Museum
(Exhibition catalog)
218 Yes
1978 Getlein, Frank The Lure of the Great West 352 Yes
1978 Peters, Gerald P American Art of the Taos School 480 Yes
1978 Schimmel, Julie; Gilbert Tapley Vincent Stark Museum of Art: The Western Collection 244 Yes
1977 Hassrick, Peter H The Way West Art of Frontier America 240 Yes
1976 Phoenix Art Museum Paintings from the McKee Foundation
(Exhibition catalog)
36 Yes
1976 Robertson, Edna/Sarah Nestor Artists of the Canyons and Caminos, Santa Fe, the Early Years 182 Yes
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1976 School of American Research Representative Art and Artists of New Mexico
(Exhibition catalog)
41 No
1975 Ballinger, James K The American West Selections/Kennedy Galleries
(Exhibition catalog)
24 Yes
1975 Santa Fe Festival of the Arts Santa Fe Collects
(Exhibition catalog)
64 Yes
1974 Denver Art Museum Picturesque Images from Taos and Santa Fe
(Exhibition catalog)
215 Yes
1974 Museum of Texas Tech Univ Selections from the Collection Mr & Mrs Fred T Hogan
(Exhibition catalog)
60 Yes
1974 New Mexico, Museum of Fine Art Handbook of the Collections Museum of Fine Arts 192 Yes
1974 Schriever, George; Dean Krakel (Intro) American Masters in the West Selections from the Anschutz Collections
(Exhibition catalog)
64 Yes
1973 Baird, Joseph Armstrong The West Remembered
(Exhibition catalog)
88 Yes
1973 Naylor, Maria Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set)
(Exhibition catalog)
1075 No
1972 Amon Carter Museum Amon Carter Museum of Western Art Catalogue of the Collection 1972 600 No
1972 Earle, Helen L Biographical Sketches of American Artists 370 No
1972 Forster, Peggy; Julie Snow Birkhimer; Mae Huntington Permanent Collection Catalog Springville Museum of Art 75 Yes
1971 Harmsen, Dorothy Harmsen's Western Americana 212 Yes
1971 Rossi, Paul/David Hunt The Art of the Old West From the Collection of the Gilcrease Institute 335 Yes
1970 Phoenix Art Museum Art of the Western Scene 1880-194
(Exhibition catalog)
28 No
1968 Ainsworth, Ed; John Wayne (Foreward) The Cowboy in Art 242 Yes
1968 El Paso Museum of Art The McKee Collection of Paintings
(Exhibition catalog)
66 Yes
1966 Hinkhouse, F M An Exhibition of Paintings of the Southwest From the Santa Fe Railway Collection
(Exhibition catalog)
26 No
1964 Read Mullan Gallery Read Mullan Gallery of Western Art
(Exhibition catalog)
40 Yes
1963 Coke, Van Deren Taos and Santa Fe The Artists Environment 1882-1942 168 Yes
1953 Taft, Robert Artists and Illustrators- Old West 1850-1900 400 No
1952 McCracken, Harold Portrait of the Old West 216 Yes
1947 Luhan, Mabel Dodge Taos and Its Artists 168 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1932 Hartmann, Sadekichi A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One 363 No
1915 Walter, John; Pedro Lemos Panama-Pacific Exposition: Catalogue of the Post-Exposition Exhibit 112 No
1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition (Editor) Official Catalogue of Exhibitors Department B, Art
(Exhibition catalog)
281 No
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