Lovers (Indian Love Song)
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
Although inspired by Native American music that he experience firsthand in the American Southwest, Eanger Irving Couse's numerous representations of Indian musician were highly generalized, as was his use of native details. (These figures are dressed in clothing broadly typical of Plains peoples.) His paintings this offered a romanticized, antimodern notion of Native Americans—a perspective that appealed to turn-of-the-century white audiences, who were increasingly fascinated with Indian art. Owing in part to the appeal of such images, they traveled in growing numbers to Taos, New Mexico, where Couse spent a portion of each year beginning in 1902.
Caption
Eanger Irving Couse American, 1866–1936. Lovers (Indian Love Song), 1905. Oil on canvas, 24 1/8 x 29 1/16 in. (61.3 x 73.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of George A. Hearn, 12.91. No known copyright restrictions (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 12.91.jpg)
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Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
Lovers (Indian Love Song)
Date
1905
Medium
Oil on canvas
Classification
Dimensions
24 1/8 x 29 1/16 in. (61.3 x 73.8 cm)
Signatures
Signed lower right: "E I COUSE"
Credit Line
Gift of George A. Hearn
Accession Number
12.91
Rights
No known copyright restrictions
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