Paintings
Louis Hovey Sharp
American, 1874-1946Santa Barbara CA.
Oil / Canvas20 by 30 in. W/frame 28 by 38 in.
Signed lower left "Louis H. Sharp", signed and titled verso Original gilt wood frame with patterned gesso decoration
Provenance:
Private Collection New York
Le Trianon Fine Art & Antiques
See Artist Bio below.
Louis Hovey Sharp
American, 1874-1946Born in Glencoe, IL on July 27, 1874, Louis Hovey Sharp studied with William Merritt Chase, Frank Duveneck, Charles Boutwood, and at the Art Institute of Chicago. He sketched for a brief time on the Hopi reservation in Arizona before moving to Pasadena, CA in 1914.
For the next 15 years he kept studios both in Pasadena and Taos, NM. I n 1917 he spent many months painting in the Grand Canyon; in 1925 he was on the Monterey peninsula, and after 1929 lived for a time in the Austrian Tyrol.
Sharp died in Pasadena on June 13, 1946.
Member: Calif. Art Club; Calif. WC Society; Painters & Sculptors of LA. Exh: Friday Morning Club (LA), 1914; Panama-Calif. Expo (San Diego), 1915 (silver and bronze medals); LACMA, 1915; Kanst Gallery (LA), 1915-18; Raymond Hotel (Pasadena), 1919; Ely Gallery (Pasadena), 1923; Barker Bros (LA), 1924; Southby Salon (LA), 1925; Biltmore Salon (LA), 1925; Cannell & Chaffin (LA), 1925; Nicholson Gallery (Pasadena), 1926; Pasadena Society of Artists, 1927; Pasadena Art Inst., 1929; Strelecki Gallery (LA), 1937.
In: Santa Fe Railway Collection.
Edan Hughes, “Artists in California, 1786-1940”
American Art Annual 1907; California State Library (Sacramento); Southern California Artists (Nancy Moure); Artists of the American West (Doris Dawdy); Death record.