A Wyoming winter landscape by Joseph Henry Sharp, one of the founding members of the Taos Society of Artists and among the foremost painters of the American West. Executed in oil on paperboard and signed lower right, the work depicts the snow-covered meadows and cottonwoods of the 2A Ranch near Parkman, Wyoming, with the Big Horn Mountains rising beyond. The reverse is inscribed in the artist’s hand, “2A Ranch near Parkman, Wyoming – Big Horn Mts.,” and bears a presentation inscription reading, “Compliments of J.H. Sharp.”

The 2A Ranch occupied a special place in Sharp’s career. Beginning with his first visit in 1907, he made regular trips to the ranch near Parkman, Wyoming, at the eastern foot of the Big Horn Mountains overlooking the Little Bighorn River valley, at the invitation of his former Cincinnati art student, Fra Dinwiddie Dana, who had settled there with her husband, rancher Edwin L. Dana. Paintings from the 2A Ranch became a recurring subject in Sharp’s exhibitions over the following decade and are today represented in major institutional collections, including the Stark Museum of Art and the Montana Museum of Art & Culture.

Dimensions: 6 x 9 in.; framed: 16.75 x 18.75 in.

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Examined out of the frame. No apparent restoration or conservation observed under ultraviolet light. The paint surface is bright, clean, and well preserved, with no condition issues noted during examination.