Paris Nude.
circa 1929, Paris.
oil on linen.

Same model and pose as in painting below, ...but with a different vantage point.

By working monochromatically, the student was better able to focus on the effects of the light flowing over the masses of the body. It was also easier to develop the composition when color was not a factor.

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Paris Nude.
circa 1929, Paris.
oil on canvasboard.

Today when an artist enters an exhibition, there is typically a requirement that the work being entered has been completed within two years prior to its entry.
This was not always the norm in the past however. Often Couper, as well as other artists of her time, exhibited work which had been completed many years earlier.
Although this work was painted around 1929 when she was studying in Paris under André Lhote, it was entered in the 35th Annual North Shore Arts Exhibition in Gloucester in 1957.

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• 69
  
  
• Exhibition tag: North Shore Arts Exhibition / Gloucester 35th Annual Exhibition 1957
  Title: Paris Nude
  Artist: J.S. Couper(Mrs. B. King Couper)
  Price: $150
  Return Address: mrs. B. King Couper
  Rock House Art Gallery
  Tryon, N.C.

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Cossack.
1930, Paris.

This work was painted in the studio of André Lhote.

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• Paris 1930 / Painted in Studio of Andre L’Hote
  
  
• Sticker: Newcomb-Macklin Framers, NY / 1650

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A Brittany Milk Wagon.
1928, Brittany, France.
oil on canvas board.

This painting was exhibited with The National Arts Club Members Exhibition of small paintings in 1942 while Couper was living in Tryon.

This work has a phoenix logo on the back with a note about the family seal, which was first used on a catalog by Couper in the Milch Gallery in New York City.

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• Brittany Milk Cart / 1928 / J.S. Couper / Concarmeau(?) Brittany / Mrs. B. King Couper / W.S. Budworth (illegible) / 424 West 52nd Street New York City / Rock House Gallery Address
  
  
• National Arts Club Members Exhibition of small paintings / May 4 to October 1 1942
  Couper Address: 509 West 122nd Street, New York
  Title: Brittany Milk Cart
  Price: $250
  
  
• Art Association of New Orleans
  Tiltle:Milk Cart, Brittany
  Price:$250 (changed from $200)
  Returned to Tryon North Carolina

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Three Tiny Fish Boats.
possibly Brittany, France.
oil on board.

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• 19
  
  
• The back has a colored sail boat sketch on it

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The Duke’s Farewell (Chateau Kerolet).
1929-30, Brittany, France.
oil on canvas board.

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• Misc. $1000 / For Exhibition / P-8 / Knight’s Farewell / 60; 88

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Bank Account Book. 1929-30.

This account book from The Central National Bank in Spartanburg doubled as a notebook. Inside are notes on Modernism from Couper’s classes with André Lhote.

John Adger Law, the brother of Couper’s friend, fellow artist and co-founder of the Spartanburg Art Club, Margaret Law, was the president of the bank.

Notebook. 1929-30.

Besides notes on her classes with André Lhote, the notebook also contains a number of lists of works, where they were exhibited, who owned them, and the owner’s addresses.

All Memorabilia from The Spartanburg County Museum of Art Permanent Collection
Gift of Jean Andrews Copalbo

An American Bar
Opposite the Pension on Rue de la
Grande Chaumier in the Latin Quarter.
1928, Paris, France
oil on canvas.

Apparently Couper finished this painting just in time for an exhibition...there is a note on the back: “Wet Paint”.

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• Wet Paint
  
  
• Art Center / S.Couper / Paris Wine Shop / Paris, France 1928 / Opposite Pension on Rue du la Grande Chaumier in Latin Quarter, Paris, France / Save for King(circled) / Box 26-? / American Bar, Paris
  
  
• Numbers written in pencil by possibly a French hand

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Steamer Trunk.

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