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The Pictographs - Eanger Irving Couse - Oil Painting is part of our hand painted oil painting collection from the Eanger Irving Couse Paintings selection. Each canvas is worked by a trained artist, then inspected before dispatch — a practical route to owning traditional wall decor at a fraction of gallery pricing.
1919
Oil on canvas
24 x 29 inches (61.0 x 73.7 cm)
Private collection.
Eanger Irving Couse's The Pictographs of 1919 embodies the finest qualities of the artist's oeuvre: The romantic subject of the contemplative lone Indian in nature, kneeling at the base of a rock, lost in a seemingly meditative state as he works on the task at hand. Numerous ancient images appear on the rock surface behind him, and he is shown chiseling a new image into the surface, rather meticulously. In describing this subject Couse wrote, "The Rocky Mountain region abounds in pictographs cut into the rocks by the ancient Indians representing figures of men & animals & symbols of natural phenomenon. Having no written language, the Indians depicted their deeds & legends by pictorial representation on skin or the rocks...."
In 1919, Couse was at the height of his career, having fully established himself within the Taos art community. In 1902, after decades of training in illustrious institutions, including the Chicago Art Institute, National Academy of Design in New York, and Académie Julian in Paris, the artist first heard about Taos through his friend and fellow artist Ernest Blumenschein, who described the incomparable light and fresh subjects that the town's environs had to offer. Enticed, Couse and his wife, artist Virginia Walker, began spending their summers in Taos, all too happy to leave behind the rat race of New York. In 1910, they refurbished a Spanish monastery there into a home and studio. Five years later, the Taos Society of Artists was formed, and Couse was elected its first president. His paintings from this period readily adopted a brighter palette and indigenous subjects, particularly the Pueblo Indians, whose gentle demeanor and artistic practices reminded him of the Chippewa Indians he had drawn as a boy in Saganaw, Michigan.
Couse's celebrity in Taos continued to grow well after his family permanently settled there in 1927, due in large measure to the patronage of the Santa Fe Railroad, which published over twenty of his paintings on the cover of its annual calendar.
We wish to thank Virginia Leavitt, granddaughter of E.I. Couse, for providing invaluable information on this lot, which will be included in her forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work.
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