John Hauser
John Hauser
In Ambush, 1905
Gouache
11 1/2 x 19 1/2
Signed Lower Right
John Hauser was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1859. He began his formal art training at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and later at the McMicken Art School. In 1901, he was “adopted” as a Sioux and named “Straight White Shield.” For the next twenty years, Hauser and his wife traveled through the West and to New Mexico and Arizona, recording through drawing and painting the vanishing way of life of the American Indian. He specialized in portraiture of Western Indian people. He died in 1913 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Studied
Ohio Mechanics Institute; Cincinnati AA, c. 1872; McMicken Art School with T. Noble, 1873; Royal Acad., Munich, with Gysis, 1880; in Dusseldorf and Paris until 1891
Member
Cincinnati AC; Munchner Kunstler Club; Munchner Kunstverein
Work
Smithsonian; Gilcrease Inst.
Resources
P&H Samuels, 213