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

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

Tracing Couse’s evolving exploration of light, Virginia Couse Leavitt explained, “Couse’s particular interest in painting the varied qualities of light was evident from his earliest work. While studying in France between 1886-1891, it was twilight effects from either the rising moon or setting sun that attracted him. However, after he started painting Native American subjects in Washington, firelights began to appear in his work. The strong light and colors that he later found in New Mexico eventually led to the brilliant firelight and moonlight pictures for which he became justly famous.”

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