Turkey Hunter

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Provenance: Private collection, Delaware

Although Eanger Irving Couse wasn’t the first of the six Taos Founders to arrive in Taos, New Mexico—that honor went to Joseph Henry Sharp in 1893—it was Couse whose presence was so ubiquitous then, and even today, as his home and studio are still destinations for artists and art enthusiasts in the Southwest. A sole Native male figure hunting turkeys is a theme that Couse returned to over and over again in his artistic career.

In her biography of her grandfather, Virginia Couse Leavitt, quotes Couse as saying “Taos being the most northerly of all the pueblos and adjacent to the tribes of the Plains Indians, its inhabitants have been in past times great warriors and have been compelled to withstand the advances of the marauding Ute, Apache and other tribes. This war making, as well as this hunt and chase, has developed a fine type of Indian manhood, which is a delight to the artist.”

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