The Couse Home, Studio, and Garden from the south

E.I. Couse in his studio at work on San Juan Pottery, 1911. Couse first came to Taos in 1902, at the suggestion of Ernest Blumenschein.

The Couse studio, virtually intact, as he left it in 1936.

J.H. Sharp and his wife Louise with E. I. Couse’s grandchildren, Virginia and Irving.

J.H. Sharp in his studio, 1946. Sharp was the first to come to Taos, in 1893, and eventually built this studio.

Sharp’s 1915 Studio was restored in 2017 and hosts a permanent rotation exhibition of his work, collections, and ephemera

Kibbey Whitman Couse, the only child of E.I. Couse and his wife Virginia, was a noted inventor.

Kibbey Couse’s machine shop on the Couse–Sharp Historic Site.

E.I. Couse with his grandchildren, Virginia and Irving. Virginia Couse Leavitt became a guiding force of the Couse Foundation.

Virginia Couse Leavitt, E.I.’s granddaughter, and her late husband, Ernest Leavitt. Visionary custodians of a unique legacy.