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Hopi Flute Dance

Artist Eanger Irving Couse (American, 1866 - 1936)

Date1903

Mediumoil on canvas

Dimensions50 3/8 x 60 inches (128 x 152.4 cm)
Frame: 55 × 65 × 2 7/8 inches (139.7 × 165.1 × 7.3 cm)

Credit LinePurchase of the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, 1978

Object number31.31.8

ClassificationsPaintings

Label TextIn the summer of 1903 Couse traveled from Taos, New Mexico, to Arizona to visit Hopi villages. At Oraibi he made a sketch of the Hopi Flute Ceremony, which became the basis of his larger painting, Hopi Flute Dance. Couse wrote, “The Flute Ceremony (or Lelentu) of the Hopi Indians occurs each August on the Hopi reservation, in northern Arizona. It is an elaborate prayer for rain, that there may be sufficient water in the springs.”

ProvenanceCouse Estate; (J. N. Bartfields Gallery, New York, New York); H. C. Lewis, Lubbock; Gerald Peters; (Peters Corporation, Santa Fe, New Mexico); purchased January 20, 1978 by the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation; accessioned to the Stark Museum of Art

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