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E.I. Couse was born in Saginaw, Michigan, where he first started drawing the Chippewa Indians who lived nearby. Couse worked hard pay for his art education, occasionally dropping out to earn money while attending the Art Institute of Chicago, and the National Academy of Design. In 1897 Couse left for Paris to study at the Academie Julian, where he met the American artist, Joseph Henry Sharp, who often spoke of Taos. Couse would become a frequent visitor and resident of Taos from 1902 on. In 1912 when the Taos Society of Artists was formed, Couse was elected its first President. Couse is best known for his intimate images of Native Americans in moments of spiritual ceremony and quiet repose.

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Gordon Coutts was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1868. He enjoyed an extensive art education, attending schools in Glasgow, London, and Paris. Moving to Melbourne, Australia around 1895, Coutts taught at the Art Society of New South Wales for several years before moving to San Francisco, via London, in 1902. Coutts remained an active artist and exhibitor in San Francisco until his health necessitated a move to a drier climate. Ultimately settling near Palm Springs, Coutts continued to paint, becoming especially well known for his desert paintings. Gordon Coutts died in Palm Springs in 1937.

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Charles Craig was born in Morgan County, Ohio, in 1846, and started sketching as a young boy. Craig was largely a self-taught artist, except for a year spent at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, and work/study with Peter Moran, brother of John Moran. Craig drew upon personal experience for subject matter. At the age of 19, Craig had left Ohio for four years of life with various Native American Tribes of the West. In 1881 Craig moved to Colorado Springs, where he would remain for 50 years, painting, exhibiting, and teaching to supplement his income.

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Robert Bruce Crane was born in New York City in 1857, where he first attended the Art Students League. Following brief study in Europe, Crane returned to paint the landscape of rural Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey. Often painting with a subtle, dramatic, atmospheric effect, Cranes Impressionist works often feature the soft light of Autumn.

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Catharine Critcher was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, in 1868. Her art studies were at the Cooper Union School in New York, the Corcoran School of Art in Washington D.C., and the Academie Julian in Paris. Critcher returned to the U.S. in 1909, and took a position teaching at the Corcoran School. While in D.C., she also founded her own academy, the Critcher School of Painting and Applied Arts. Spending most of her summers in Taos from 1920 until her death, Critcher earned the distinction of being the first woman elected in to the Taos Society of Artists.

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Woody Crumbo was born in Lexington, Oklahoma, in 1912. A Creek-Potawatomi Indian, Crumbo specialized in Indian figure and animal paintings. He was also an accomplished silversmith, and was an assistant director of the El Paso Museum in Texas. Works by Crumbo are in the Museum of Northern Arizona, and the University of Oklahoma Library collections.

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Josephine Culbertson was born in Shanghai, China, in 1852, to American missionary parents. When her father was killed, Josephine and her mother moved to New York, where Josephine studied at the Parker School with William Merritt Chase. Josephine Culbertson moved to California in 1905, settling in Carmel. Her home is remembered as a meeting place for local artists, serving as the birthplace of the Carmel Art Association. Culbertson actively painted local scenes of the Monterey Peninsula until her death there in 1939.

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Frank Cuprien was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1871. He began his studies at the Art Students League in New York, and continued at Cooper Union, Paris, Munich, and Leipzig. Upon his return to the States, Cuprien taught at Baylor University in Texas for 5 years before moving on to California, settling in Laguna Beach. While in Southern California, Cuprien devoted himself to coastal paintings, for which he is best known. Cuprien was a popular figure. His home/studio above the beach was a gathering spot for local artists. Upon his death in 1948, Cuprien bequeathed his estate to the Laguna Beach Art Association.

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Cyrus Dallin was born in Springville, Utah in 1861, to pioneer parents. Dallin enjoyed early exposure to the Ute Indians, who would visit Springville for trade purposes. He grew up with a first-hand respect for the Native American cultures, and his works show his respect for their perspective. Dallin studied sculpture in Boston and Paris, and upon his return enjoyed many commissions, as he devoted himself to sculpting noble works of his Native American subjects.

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Andrew Dasburg was born in Paris in 1887, and moved to the U.S. at the age of 5. Dasburg was trained in New York at the Art Students League under Birge Harrison, with whom Dasburg would later have stylistic difficulties. Dasburg was an avowed modernist, likely influenced by his studies in Paris, and his introduction to the works of Cezanne, among others. Returning to the U.S., Dasburg exhibited at the pivotal Armory Exhibition in 1913 as a member of the Synchromist Movement. Dasburg later moved to Taos, New Mexico, where he was criticized by local artists, but, nonetheless credited with bringing national attention to the region.

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