Coeur d'Alene Art Auction - July 2021

– 150 – 192 Joseph Henry Sharp (1859–1953) Firelight Drummer oil on canvas laid on board 9 × 7 inches signed lower right: J H Sharp VERSO Signed, titled, and “#135” Inscribed, “Firelight Drummer – Pueblo of Taos NM, Bawling Deer – J.H. Sharp” PROVENANCE The artist, gifted to Miss Margaret McVean, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Miss Francis McVean, by descent, gifted to Mr. &Mrs. Howard Self Jim Sullivan, Spokane, Washington Coeur d’Alene Art Auction, Reno, Nevada, 2008 Private collection, Reno, Nevada EXHIBITED Enchanted Visions: The Taos Society of Artists & Ancient Cultures , Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, Spokane, Washington, 2005 LITERATURE Nan Sheets, It’s the Firelight Drummer , The Daily Oklahoman, 1935, illustrated Enchanted Visions , Washington State Historical Society, 2005, p. 11, illustrated $20,000–30,000