Louis Hovey Sharp (1874 - 1946) American. Watercolor on Paper. Dated 1938. Measure 10 1/4"in H x 14 1/4"in W and 14 1/4"in H x 18 1/4"in W with frame. Known for: Landscape and western genre painting. A landscape painter, Louis Sharp did subjects that include desert landscapes, the Grand Canyon, Hopi Indians and western genre.He was born in Glencoe, Illinois, and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and in the East with William Merritt Chase, Frank Duveneck, and Charles Boutwood.He is listed in the Smithsonian Institution Inventory of American Paintings as having painted the Grand Canyon around 1910. He also painted at Walpi on the Hopi Reservation, and in the 1920s, painted Grand Canyon scenes for the Santa Fe Railroad.From 1914, he lived in Pasadena, California, and had a studio there and also in Taos, New Mexico. In the 1930s, he painted in the Austrian Tyrol where he became a resident for a short time. He died in Los Angeles on July 12, 1946.

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