VERSO
Label, Gallery of the Masters, St. Louis, Missouri

The Moonlit Pool is included in the Eanger Irving Couse Catalogue Raisonné as number 1366.

Couse historian Virginia Couse Leavitt wrote, “Couse was primarily a figure painter, well trained in the academic tradition at the National Academy of Design in New York and then at the Académie Julian in Paris. Consistently, throughout his career, he was interested in painting the qualities of light, which in his case led to an interest in Tonalism. After arriving in New Mexico, he adapted this style of painting, which relied on a color scheme based on one predominant hue, to his brilliant firelights and moonlights. Tonalism also involved a mood of quietism, which was ideal for Couse’s interest in the spiritual qualities of Native American life.

“Couse was particularly fond of tonal painting, in which he based his composition either on the cool blues of moonlight or the warm tones of firelight.”

PROVENANCE
Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, New York
Eanger Irving Couse Estate, Taos, New Mexico, 1936
Kibbey W. Couse, Taos, New Mexico
Gallery of the Masters, St. Louis, Missouri
Private collection, Saint Charles, Missouri

EXHIBITED
Spring Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, New York, 1924
A Retrospective Showing of Paintings by E. Irving Couse, Panhandle Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, Texas, 1967

LITERATURE
A Retrospective Showing of Paintings by E. Irving Couse, Panhandle Plains Historical Museum, 1967, listed

• Eanger Irving Couse’s Past Results

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