Scottsdale Art Auction
Live Auction

April 2025 | Session II (Lots 243-464)

Sat, Apr 12, 2025 04:00PM EDT
Lot 370

Eanger Irving Couse (1866-1936) 9 x 12 inches

Estimate: $30,000 - $50,000
Sold for
$32,175
Sold Price includes BP

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$0 $100
$2,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$20,000 $2,500
$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000
Artist: Eanger Irving Couse; Title: Moonlit Spring; Medium: Oil on board; Dimensions: 9 x 12 inches; Signed: Signed lower right; Framed/Base: 15 x 18 inches This lot's overall appearance is Excellent. This piece was evaluated under a black light.
Overall Dimensions
Height: 15.00
Width: 18.00

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Provenance: Scottsdale Art Auction, Scottsdale, AZ, 2006 Private collection, California Although several of the Taos Society of Artists painted nocturnes, none were as active in the genre as Eanger Irving Couse, who painted dozens of scenes bathed in blue moonlight. During a 1974 exhibition of Couse’s works, Harold McCracken acknowledged that the artist transcended his art form. “Eanger Irving Couse as an artist can probably best be described as a poet with paint brushes rather than pencils or a typewriter…The Indian paintings Couse put on canvas have the distinctiveness which is the hallmark of a great artist. It does not take any great amount of expertise to recognize a Couse picture, even at a considerable distance and without looking at the signature.”