263 Evening Camp-Blackfoot Res

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Category Art
Auction Currency USD
Start Price 10,000.00 USD
Estimated at 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD
Evening Camp-Blackfoot Res
Artist: Sharp, Joseph H.Date of Birth: 1859-1953
Medium: Oil on board
Dimensions: 6 x 8 inches
Signed: Signed lower right
Verso: Signed and titled verso

Patterns of impasto, shimmering reflections, and rhythmic repetitions of forms and colors make Evening Camp—Blackfoot Res a very painterly picture. Low, brushy trees and triangular tepees, wedded to their mirror images in the water, become diamonds. The four most prominent tepees, find echoes in the four peaks of the distant mountains. Blues, pinks, purples, and yellows undulate across the sunset sky. One figure, robed in dark red from head to foot and reflected in the water, stands outside the tepee at left. Like the sun, this last figure heads in for the night. Soon, darkness and the murmur of silence will settle over the camp and the land. The splendor of day will gave way to the metre of night.