Show INDIAN PORTRAITS ITS BY ART ARTIST SHARP Among mong the guests at nt the I Knutsford yesterday was a gentleman who has hag made a unique place for tal himself In the circle Ircle of ot the great artists t He lie HeB lieIs Is 18 B tho the Interpreter of or the American merlean Indian In Indian In- In dian b by means of or the brush Mr 11 J. J H. H Sharp and his talented wife are arc returning return- return ing ng to their home In Cincinnati after a whole summer spent with the Flathead and Blackfoot Indians Indiana They arrived yesterday ay from San Francisco where the they hey were wert the guests for a week of or Mrs Hearst learst who as everyone c knows Is a great patron of or art For several sc summers summers summers sum sum- mers past Mr Ir and Mrs Sharp have taken aken up th lr residence with wHIt different tribes of or the redskins and devoted c months to studying and depicting their characters One could not Imagine the wealth of ot Interest to be toun found In the In Indian Indian In- In dian nature without tho the revelation which two such students as these have made nade In the portraits For Mrs Sharp too oo Is Instinct with the the theart art spirit as aswell aswell well veil as her husband and her hr part of oC the he work wor consists largely In the exorcise exercise of oC f a womans woman's Intuition In getting at the tho true rue Inwardness of ot th the human heart Mr Sharps Sharp's hearing Is defective and his wife does most of or the listening when Lo Io expresses himself With her keen Insight Into the springs of action back of the Imperturbable bronzed face she he Interprets many a remark of oC the rp thus giving gl to the painter a n. aluc clue luc to the character and disposition to tobe tobe be bc revealed rc on the animated canvas cnn Mr and Mis Sharp Invited In a n few tew friends and acquaintances to their rooms last c evening to enjoy enJo the product of the tho summers summer's work Mr Ir Sharp had ll hada a dozen or more Flathead and Blackfoot Blackfoot Blackfoot Black- Black foot portraits In oil together ether with re reproductions reproductions re- re productions of ot portraits of or other Indian Indian In- In dian llan types type a number of reservation landscapes and sonic some specimens of ot a n. anew anew new monotype colored art process The thc principal Interest attached to the portraits por- por traits trails of or the Montana chiefs done the past summer The Thc artist considers some of or them his best work which Is saying aln much for the Smithsonian Institution at Washington thought so well of or his hie work vork that a n couple of ot years ars R ago O. O It purchased eleven cleven of the best likenesses and Mrs IT Hearst owns o alto altogether nearl nearly seventy Ie of or them The artist I Is a comparatively comparatively com com- young oun man yet et and has hils not yet ct reached reache the height of or hl his fame though hough since the days das of or Catlin's In Indians Indians Indians In- In nothing has appeared the equal of or Mr lr Sharps Sharp's portraits It Is easy to reproduce on canvas a redskins redskin's paint and ind feathers says s 's Mr Ir Sharp but hut to get at the thc soul of hl his tribe tribe his character charac- charac ter cr and the life history back of or him him him- that hat Is not so easy easy Mr 1 Sharps Sharp's pictures pictures pictures pic pic- tures have an ethnological value all nil their own The different chiefs chiefs' represent represent sent marked markedly distinct types There are arc Tall Tail Feather Running Bunning Crane Judge Short Shorty White Grass GrassFlat Flat Tall Tail Morning Morn Morn- In ing ng Eagle Encle George Eats Alone LittlePlume Little Plume lume Plume Chief Joseph Standing Bear Dear Chief Little Wolf Tel tia and Lady Prett Pretty Blanket and some somo other savage ladles all adles all with striking ii g tics The Th artists artist's genius makes malics them stand stanc out out from from tHe canvas with the cut clear profile of ot statues wIllie while the naturalness of oC the c coloring seems to tomake tomake tomake make them breathe with life The atmospheric atmospheric atmospheric at at- at- at effect of the Montana backgrounds backgrounds back back- grounds with the tho tepees In the fore Is caught upon the canvas with a realistic tlc fidelity that only great genius could could command When hen the noble red man shall have passed away as away as ho he must probably during this twentieth century these thee portraits of oC Mr Sharps Sharp's will make him live again speaking his thoughts thought through the animated e eye e and moving lip and heaving breast HI His past past far far down the ages ages mayhap mayhap back to the da days s 's of tho the descendants descendants descend descend- ants of oC the tribe of Israel as ns the Mormons Mor Mor- Mormons mons believe belle v ill be read In the faces faceson on these canvases Next year ear Mr and I I Mrs Sharp will come West lyest again to live I with the Indians The They were asked last night to remember the Utes and Flutes and doubtless those thoe tribes will furnish subjects for new types and faces Where here could such paintings find a home more appreciative and more appropriate ate than In some fine mansion on Brigham Brighum Brig Brig- hum ham street sheet |