Lot 52
  • 52

Eanger Irving Couse

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

  • Eanger Irving Couse
  • Indian Drinking
  • signed E.I. Couse (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 24 by 29 inches
  • (61 by 74 cm)
  • Painted in 1903.

Provenance

Mrs. Stevenson Burke, Cleveland, Ohio, 1906
Private collection
Troy's Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, by 1990

Exhibited

New York, Lotus Club, February, 1904, no. 9
St. Louis, Missouri, Universal Exposition, May-December, 1904, no. 160, p. 26 (bronze medal)
New York, Society of American Artists, March-April, 1905
Portland, Oregon, Lewis & Clark Fair, June-October, 1905, no. 313

Literature

Nicolas Woloshuk, E. Irving Couse, Santa Fe, 1976, p. 51, illustrated

Condition

The painting is strip lined. Surface in generally good condition. Under ultraviolet light; the painting retains an old greenish varnish that has been selectively cleaned, especially in the central indian figure, which fluoresces.
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