Eanger Irving Couse (American, 1866-1936). Chief Shoppenagon study, 1909. Oil on canvas. 19 x 9 inches (48.3 x 22.9 cm)...

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Eanger Irving Couse (American, 1866-1936)
Chief Shoppenagon study, 1909
Oil on canvas
19 x 9 inches (48.3 x 22.9 cm)
Signed lower right: E.I. Couse
Bears inscription by Kibbey Couse on the reverse: Study for / "Chief Shappanagons" [sic] / Chippewa / Painted at Grayling / Mich. 1909. / by E. Irving Couse, NA / The big painting is 36 x 78 ins. / and is owned by / The Detroit Museum / of Art. / This was a / commission from a Mich. lumber / man named Ward

Property from the Estate of Lois Brennand, Santa Fe, New Mexico

PROVENANCE:
The artist;
Charles Willis Ward, Saginaw, Michigan, commissioned from the above, 1907;
Greenfield Estate Auction, Seattle, Washington, 1973;
Midwestern Galleries, Cincinnati, Ohio;
Private collection, Chattanooga, Tennessee.

LITERATURE:
P.J. Broder, Taos: A Painter's Dream, Boston, Massachusetts, 1980, p. 151, illustrated (as Chief Shoppenagons).

Chief Shoppenagon, commissioned in 1907 by Michigan lumber titan Charles Willis Ward, exemplifies Couse's innate ability to encapsulate the beauty, dignity, and quiet power of David Shoppenagon, chief of the Chippewa tribe. Couse completed the present study in 1909, and the final work, in the permanent collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1910.

This work is listed in the forthcoming online catalogue raisonné of the works of Eanger Irving Couse under cat. no. 0226 / id. #226.


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