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  • Eanger Irving Couse
    Sep 03, 1866 - Apr 26, 1936
  • Watching - Eanger Irving Couse was One of the more accomplished figure painters of the original Taos Society of Artists, His lifelong pursuit of painting Native Americans was kindled by the beauty and tranquility of the local Chippewa and Ojibwa cultures. The training he received in Europe, particularly under Adolphe Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury, influenced the measured studio style he practiced for the rest of his life.
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  • circa 1916
    Oil on canvas
    30 x 36 in
    Private collection, Phoenix, Arizona.

    One of the Taos Society of Artists founders and first president, Eanger Irving Couse was able to capture romantic and even mystical qualities of his subjects and their surroundings, while painting with a French educated sense of anatomy and gesture and a heightened interest in the details and individualism of his subjects.

    In Watching, Couse presents a Navajo hunter in full feather headdress as he intently watches a flock of birds coming in to land on a pond. The figure clutches a bow and arrows in his left hand while he casually drapes his right hand over a tree branch, leaning forward to get a better look at the fowl, and perhaps to camouflage himself from their view. The painting's color palette is dominated by the golden orange-brown leaves on the tree surrounding the figure and blanketing the ground beneath his feet. The boulders along the shore and the stands of trees across the pond match this singular color palette but in a muted way that creates the effect of atmosphere and distance. Even the figure himself is painted in a golden-brown skin tone, with red and brown highlights punctuating his clothing and the headdress feathers. Depictions of Native American hunters in an autumnal forest is a motif Couse returned to multiple times in addition to the present work including in Indian Hunter (1902) and Mountain Hunter (1905).

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Other paintings by Eanger Irving Couse:

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Eanger Irving CouseEanger Irving Couse was born in Saginaw, Michigan. His lifelong pursuit of painting Native Americans was kindled by the beauty and tranquility of the local Chippewa and Ojibwa cultures. Couse chose a career in art at an early age, studying at the Chicago Art Institute, the National Academy of Design in New York, and, as was the dream of many young artists of the time, at the Académie Julian in Paris. The training he received in Europe, particularly under Adolphe Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury, influenced the measured studio style he practiced for the rest of his life.

In Paris, Couse married a fellow artist whose family ranch in Washington State provided him with access to a number of Indian tribes. Lyrical portraits of the Klikitat, Yakima, and Umatilla, painted in the Barbizon style, were his first attempts at this truly American subject. His historical narratives of the West brought him great acclaim at the Paris Salon exhibitions.

Finding French peasant scenes and European landscapes more saleable, Couse returned to a successful career in France. However, upon the advice of fellow artists, Joseph Henry Sharp and Ernest Blumenschein, Couse made his first visit to Taos in 1902. Though Couse maintained a studio in Manhattan during the winter months until 1928, Taos was his inspiration and became his permanent home.

Couse was elected to full membership in the National Academy of Design in 1911. His paintings are represented in numerous museums and private collections including the Detroit Institute of Art, the Metropolitan Museum and the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution. Through the many paintings created for the railroad, his painting received national exposure and brought recognition to Taos. Couse created images that were highly influential in changing the public's perception of the West and many are regarded as poetic renderings of a vanished time.