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Eanger Irving Couse, Image Maker for America $40 (soft cover) or $65 (hard cover) by Virgina Couse Leavitt

The Couse Foundation is pleased to announce the reprinting of "Eanger Irving Couse, Image Maker for America". This is an exact reproduction, with minor corrections, of the original 1991 catalogue for a Couse retrospective at The Albuquerque Museum. 248 pages, with 158 color and black and white illustrations and text by Virginia Couse Leavitt.

A license to reprint was given by The City of Albuquerque and The Albuquerque Museum. Funding was graciously provided by J.N. Bartfield Galleries, New York, NY.

The Couse Collection of Santos, $20, by The Couse Foundation, Barbara Shultz, Project Manager.

A full-color softback 70 page book detailing the collection of retablos and bultos collected by E.I. and Virginia Couse, containing an informative and useful guide to the art of conservation.

The first in a projected series about various aspects of the Site and the Couse Collections.

Authentically American — DVD $12 by The Couse Foundation

"Authentically American"--a 12 minute DVD produced by The Couse Foundation and filmed by HD Solutions of Santa Fe, containing beautiful footage of the Couse/Sharp Historic Site and the opinions of numerous experts as to the importance of its preservation. Included are remarks by Stuart Ashman, New Mexico's Director of Cultural Affairs, Marsha Bol, Director of the New Mexico Museum of Art, Wanda Corn, eminent art historian from Stanford University, Peter Hassrick of the Denver Art Museum's Petrie Institute of Western Art, Forrest Fenn, art dealer and author of the major books on Sharp, Jerry Peters, renowned dealer in American art, Virginia Couse Leavitt, art historian and granddaughter of Couse, and Alan Olson, President of The Couse Foundation.

Painting Taos — DVD $24.95, produced by KNME

This one hour documentary explores the colorful history of how the Taos Society of Artists and early modernist painters, helped turn a small mountain vilage into a premiere American art destination. Through interviews with historians as well as the artists' descendants, we learn how these young, ambitious artists set out to paint vivid images of the "vanishing" West. This is a story of Taos - the one of a kind place that continues to provide artists with that "unforgettable inspiration."

Teepee Smoke $125 by Forrest Fenn
This book is about Indians, as seen by an artist who was born sixteen years before General Custer was killed in the battle of The Little Big Horn. The artist, Joseph Henry Sharp, watched and recorded a way of life long since faded from our view.

In Poetic Silence the Floral Paintings of Joseph Henry Sharp $65 by Tom Minckler

"In Poetic Silence"--This book “celebrates…an unexplored facet of the career of one of the most beloved painters of the American West….the fact that Joseph Henry Sharp painted a significant body of floral still life paintings…may astonish many people”.







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