CHARLESTON SC NATIONAL DESIGNER & FINE ART
Lot 146:
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Original Watercolor / Gouache by John Hauser (1859-1913) Comrades of Plains. Signed lower right "John Hauser". Titled lower left. Inscribed above title "Presented by Mrs. J. Hauser" and above signature "Original Composition by".Watercolor and gouache on paper, 12" x 9" sight. Framed 14.5" x 11.5" Weight 2 lbs Condition: Not examined out of frame. Some creasing / wrinkling to paper. toning, foxing to mat, some loss to frame. **In house shipping available on this lot** If you win this lot, please select self arranged for in house shipping when paying** John Hauser was an American painter best known for his portraits of Native Americans and depictions of various aspects of their lives. He had academic training at art schools in Europe, including the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In the United States, he became fascinated with Native Americans of the Southwest and West, whom he painted for the rest of his life. In 1893 he traveled with the American artist Joseph Henry Sharp to Taos, New Mexico, and other areas of that and nearby states. He did so much work at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota that he and his wife were adopted by the Lakota Sioux as members of their nation. john Hauser was born to German immigrants in Clifton, Ohio in 1858 (59) and died October 6, 1918 in Cincinnati, Ohio. After showing an early interest in drawing, he enrolled at the Ohio Mechanics’ Institute to begin studying drawing. Hauser then moved to Cincinnati where he began his more formal art training at the Cincinnati Art Academy and later at the McMicken Art School. In 1880, John Hauser traveled to Munich to study at the Royal Academy of Art under Nicholas Gysis (1842-1901). Returning to Cincinnati, he would support himself by teaching art in the public schools. In 1885, Hauser returned to Germany to continue working under Gysis and others at Dusseldorf Academy. Like other American artist during this period, Hauser journeyed to Paris to study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts.Hauser painted portraits of many of America’s most famous Indian chiefs of the day. His legendary portraits included; Sitting Bull, Red Cloud, American Horse, Spotted Tail, High Horse and Lone Bear. The model for the Indian Head Nickel was a composite of two Hauser portraits; Chief Iron Tail, Sioux and Chief John Big Tree, Iroquois. Besides his small Indian portraits, Hauser painted large canvases of Indian hunters and village life, which were painted in his careful, realistic and authentic style. His work is in numerous Museums and Private Collections.
Condition: Condition: Not examined out of frame. Some creasing / wrinkling to paper. toning, foxing to mat, some loss to frame
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