Browse Exhibits (7 total)
Framing the Southwest: Eanger Irving Couse and Crafting the Picture Frame
Built upon research by Virginia Couse Leavitt, Framing the Southwest details the origins and varying influences on the elaborate, hand-crafted frames surrounding the paintings of Eanger Irving Couse. This online exhibition links Couse's French Academic training to his approach to frame design, lists Couse's history with commercial frame makers, and describes his own frame making process, informed by Pueblo aesthetics and made with local materials. This project also analyzes the lasting impression of Couse's frames in Contemporary Southwestern Art.
Contents:
What's in a Frame? - Describes the frame making process.
Frame Histories - A brief history of frame making from the late Medieval Era to the 1920's.
French Academic Principles in Couse's Frames - Associates Couse's approach to framemaking with his time at the Académie Julian in Paris, France.
Couse's Frame Makers: A Timeline - Lists each framemaker that Couse directly worked with, including himself.
Types of Couse Frames - Lists each distinct design seen in Couse's original frames.
Couse's Legacy - Analyzes Couse's impact on framing in Contemporary Southwestern Art.
Catharine Carter Critcher
Learn more about the life and legacy of the only female member of the Taos Society of Artists, Catharine Carter Critcher.
From Irving's Scrap Book: Taos Fiestas
Ben Lujan Oral History Project
Reflections: Taos Pueblo and the Photography of E. I. Couse
Highlights from the David and Carol Farmer Archive
The following online exhibit is comprised of selections from the David and Carol Farmer Archive at the Lunder Research Center for the Taos Society of Artists, located at the Couse-Sharp Historic Site in Taos, New Mexico.
A historian and scholar of rare books, Dr. David Farmer and his wife, the artist and scholar Carol Farmer, live currently in the Santa Fe area. Their archive, donated to The Lunder Research Center, contains a wide range of print ephemera and texts, most of which focus on the cultures and art of the Southwest.
The selections for this exhibit, which center around tourism and the commodifications of Native cultures in New Mexico and Arizona, constitute just a small sampling of the work contained within the Farmer Archive.
This online exhibit was compiled, research, and written by CSHS Summer 2021-2022 intern, Olivia von Gries, a doctoral student in Art History at the University of Oklahoma.