The Spirit of America: The Wolf Family Collection
The Spirit of America: The Wolf Family Collection
Shrine to the Rain Gods
Auction Closed
April 20, 12:24 AM GMT
Estimate
350,000 - 550,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Eanger Irving Couse
1866 - 1936
Shrine to the Rain Gods
signed E-I-Couse-N.A. (lower right)
oil on canvas
35 x 46 in. (88.9 x 116.8 cm.)
Executed circa 1920.
This painting will be included in Virginia Couse Leavitt's forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work.
The artist
Henry W. Ranger Fund
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio (acquired as a gift from the above in 1921)
Museum of the American Indian, New York (acquired from the above)
Heye Foundation, New York (acquired from the above on May 31, 1955)
Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York
Wolf Family Collection No. 0137 (acquired from the above on March 22, 1971)
Santa Fe, New Mexico, Museum at Santa Fe, 1921
New York, National Academy of Design, 97th Annual Exhibition, 1922, p. 9
New York, Kennedy Galleries, A Plentiful Country: An Exhibition of Important Paintings of the American West, 1970, no. 43, p. 48, illustrated
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019-21 (on loan)