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Pottery Maker by Firelight

Currency:USD Category:Art Start Price:10.00 USD Estimated At:35,000.00 - 45,000.00 USD
Pottery Maker by Firelight
Altermann Art Auction | August 16th 2014 | Santa Fe

We will have 494 items at auction. We will be offering a selection of prints, sculpture, painting, pottery and collectibles from around the country, world and time.

All property is sold “as is” and should be viewed personally by you or your professional representative or conservator before the sale to assess condition.

Eanger Irving Couse, 1866 - 1936 NA, TSA | Signed: E.I. Couse N.A., l/l | Media: Oil on board | Dimensions: 9 by 12 inches

Irving Eager Couse chose to paint Native Americans as peaceful and dignified human beings. He had already painting Indians from other parts of the United States when he arrived in Taos, New Mexico. He had heard about the Northern New Mexico village from his fellow student in Paris, Joseph Henry Sharp. In 1912 he was elected the first president of the Taos Society of Artists. Couse’s paintings and those by other members of the Taos Society of America brought national attention to the Taos Pueblo Indians. His images were influential in changing the public’s perception of the West.

Provenance: Walter Root Bennett.
Descent within the family to the present owner. Walter Bennett was president of Acme Brick and from a pioneering Fort Worth Texas family. According to Bennett’s grandson, the present offering was acquired in the 1920’s when Bennett and his wife Edith Evens and their three children made their annual visit to Santa Fe and Taos.