biography of Louis Hovey SHARP (1875-1946)

Birth place: Glencoe, IL

Death place: Pasadena, CA

Addresses: Oak Park, IL; Pasadena, CA/ Taos, NM

Profession: Landscape painter

Studied: AIC; with C.E. Boutwood; W.M. Chase; F. Duveneck.

Exhibited: AIC, 1904; Panama-Calif. Expo, San Diego, 1915 (silver & bronze medals); Kanst Gallery, Los Angeles, 1917; Biltmore Salon, Los Angeles, 1925; Taos & Pasadena, 1914-29.

Member: Calif. AC; Calif. WC Soc.; P&S of Los Angeles

Work: Santa Fe RR Collection

Comments: Sharp sketched on the Hopi Reservation in Arizona. He settled in Pasadena in 1914 and also kept a studio in Taos; he moved to the Austrian Tyrol after 1929.

Sources: WW08; Hughes, Artists in California, 507-508; P&H Samuels, 436.