The Peace Pipe
Artist: Eanger Irving Couse (American, 1866–1936)
Original Dimensions: 26" x 32"
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
About Artwork: (1901) "Couse developed an interest in Native American peoples while growing up in Michigan, and later, as an art student in Paris, where he learned of Taos, New Mexico. Wishing to draw inspiration from that creative community and its Indigenous inhabitants, the artist established a summer studio there in 1902. Couse also painted Native Americans of the Northwest coast along the Columbia River, as in The Peace Pipe, which depicts three men around a small campfire in the woods. It displays his academic training in its attention to nearly nude figures as well as his interest in the effects of firelight." - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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