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Wooded Stream.
oil on canvas.

collection of Lalage Warrington

 

Mountain Lake.
oil on canvas.

collection of Lalage Warrington

 

 

Mountain Stream.
oil on linen.

NOTES ON BACK

  • Mountain Stream / By Mrs. B. King Couper / $30.00 / Flowers $300.00 / Mountain Trail $20.00 / Bride $50.00

private collection

Mountain Road.
oil on canvas.

This piece was originally from the collection of Lottie Jennings Barksdale, cousin of the artist.

It may be a color sketch for the painting below.

collection of
Mr. and Mrs. Glen B. Boggs, II

 

Montreat Sunlight.
Montreat, N.C.
oil on canvas.

collection of Nancy Sibley Dunn

Charleston Graveyard.
oil on canvas

collection of
Mr. J.L. Sibley Jennings, Jr.

The Yellow Tree
probably 1950’s.
oil on canvasboard.

One source believes this is possibly the last painting Couper finished.

collection of
Jean Andrews Capalbo

Ducks Playing in Sunlight
1925.
oil on canvas.

The exhibition card tacked to the back of the frame indicates that the painting was entered in the Thirtieth Annual North Shore Arts Exhibition of Gloucester in 1952.

It also confirms for us that some things never change; it reminds the entrants that “Work by members whose dues are unpaid will not be exhibited.”

NOTES ON BACK OF WORK

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  • WET PAINT

  • Exhibition card tacked to back of frame:
    North Shore Arts Exhibition of Gloucester
    Thirtith Annual Exhibition
    1952

    Title:Ducks Playing in Sunlight
    Artist : Mrs. B. King Couper
    Price: $60.00
    Return Address: Mrs. B. King Couper
    Tryon, N Carolina
    Delivered by Express or Hand [ “or Hand” crossed out]
    Work by members whose dues are unpaid will not be exhibited.


  • The Spartanburg County Museum of Art Permanent Collection
    Gift of Jean Andrews Copalbo

Woman with Cat
oil on canvas.

There are several preparatory sketches for this painting. Notes seem to refer to the sitter as the “egg lady”.

NOTES ON BACK OF WORK

  • Tryon, NC (on frame)

  • #29

  • Piece of paper tacked to back of frame with following information:
    Tryon, NC
    Name Mrs. B. King Couper
    Address: ROCKHOUSE ART GALLERY Tryon, NC
    Phone: ULRICK 2-1025
    Title: “Woman with Cat”
    Class: PORTRAIT
    Lot no. 16 (professional)
    Medium: OIL
    Price: $125.00

  • Sticker (Barber’s Hendersonville)

    collection of Jean Andrews Capalbo