A Street in Taos, New Mexico
Artist
Eanger Irving Couse
(American, 1866 - 1936)
Mediumoil on paperboard
Dimensions9 x 12 inches (22.9 x 30.5 cm)
Frame: 14 3/4 × 17 1/2 × 2 1/2 inches (37.5 × 44.5 × 6.4 cm)
Frame: 14 3/4 × 17 1/2 × 2 1/2 inches (37.5 × 44.5 × 6.4 cm)
Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965
Object number31.31.3
ClassificationsPaintings
Label TextA herder with a flock of sheep strolls through a sunlit street. Couse’s painting conveys some of the quiet charm of the village of Taos, New Mexico. Couse first visited Taos in 1902. He became one of the founding members of the Taos Society of Artists, begun in 1915. Other first members were Oscar E. Berninghaus, Ernest L. Blumenschein, William Herbert Dunton, Bert Phillips, and Joseph Henry Sharp.
ProvenanceJane Hiatt, Taos, New Mexico; purchased August 10, 1956 by H.J. Lutcher Stark [1887-1965]; bequeathed September 2, 1965 to the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation; accessioned to the Stark Museum of Art
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Eanger Irving Couse
Eanger Irving Couse
Eanger Irving Couse
Oscar Edmund Berninghaus