Born 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.

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.

Sources:
Doris Dawdy, Artists of the American West, Volume II
Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art
Peggy and Harold Samuels, The Illustrated Biographical Dictionary of Artists of the American West
Edan Hughes, Artists in California, 1786-1940