Print on Canvas “Hunting Son” [SOLD]

Mr. and Mrs. William W. McAdoo owned and operated a fine art gallery in Albuquerque in the 1970s and perhaps even earlier and later than the 70s.  They made prints on canvas of several paintings from their own collection.  One of the prints is this Joseph Henry Sharp "Hunting Son" from an original in their collection.  There is no indication of how many prints they made of each, but I believe it was rather limited in quantity.

It has been stated that Sharp probably used Hunting Son as a model for eighty or more paintings.  He also used the title "Hunting Son" on a number of those paintings.

Sharp is given credit for founding the art colony in Taos.  He spent his first summer in Taos in 1893 and fell in love with the Taos Indians and their multi-storied pueblo.  He felt, however, that the pueblo had withstood over a thousand years and was still there and the Indians had been mostly unaffected by the Spaniards who arrived 300 years earlier, so he felt no urgency to capture them and their surroundings in paint.  His urgency was to capture the Plains Indians in paint because they were in more danger of change and annihilation.   Sharp bought a house in Taos in 1909 and mostly settled there until his death in 1953.

Condition:  the print is in original condition

Provenance: from the collection of Katherine H. Rust

Recommended Reading: Beat of the Drum and the Whoop of the Dance by Forrest Fenn.