E. Irving Couse
Eanger Irving Couse
Born	September 3, 1866(1866-09-03) Saginaw, Michigan
Died	April 26, 1936 Albuquerque, New Mexico
Nationality	American
Field	Painting
Training	National Academy of Design, New York

Eanger Irving Couse (1866-1936) was an American artist, noted for paintings of Native Americans, New Mexico, and the American Southwest.

[edit] Biography

Couse was born in Saginaw, Michigan, where he first started drawing the Chippewa Indians who lived nearby. Couse attended the Art Institute of Chicago, and the National Academy of Design, New York. He left for Paris to study at the École des Beaux-Arts and Académie Julian under Bouguereau. He lived in France 10 years, where he painted charming scenes of the Normandy coast.

After his return to America, he devoted himself to depicting the life and habits of the Taos Indians, a Pueblo tribe in New Mexico and was active in the Taos art colony. In 1915, he became one of the founding members of the Taos Society of Artists in Taos, New Mexico.

Among those in public galleries are "Elkfoot" (National Gallery, Washington); "The Forest Camp" (Brooklyn Museum); "The Tom-Tom Maker" (Lotos Club, New York); "Medicine Fires" (Montclair Gallery, New Jersey); "Shapanagons, a Chippewa Chief" (Detroit Museum). He was elected to the National Academy of design in 1911.New International Encyclopedia In 1912 when the Taos Society of Artists was formed, Couse was elected its first President.

[edit] Early works

In 1899, Course exhibited three paintings at the Boston Art Club: A Cayuse Indian (oil), Maternity (oil), and Yakima Encampment (oil). At the time of this Exhibition, Course listed his current address as the Van Dyck Studios, 939 8th Avenue, NYC.

[edit] Later works

The Historian, by E. Irving Couse, painted in 1902.

• "Mending the War Bonnet"
• "Making Pottery" (awarded the Carnegie prize)
• "Rushing Water" (1912)
• "Twilight, Taos Pueblo" (1913)

During his career, Couse exhibited widely and won numerous awards at: the Paris Salon, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Academy of Design (Altman prize, 1916), the Salmagundi Club (Isidor prize, 1917), and was awarded the Lippincott prize from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1921). He received awards from the American Exposition, Buffalo, the Boston Art Club, the Corcoran Gallery and the Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco (silver medal, 1915). His works are held in many museums in the United States and around the world.

Couse died in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1936 and is buried at Sierra View Cemetery in Taos.

Asked how to say his name, he told The Literary Digest that it rhymed with house. (Charles Earle Funk, What's the Name, Please?, Funk & Wagnalls, 1936.)

[edit] Sources

• AskArt: Eanger Irving Couse, Biography
• Find-A-Grave: Eanger Irving Couse

[edit] External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: E. Irving Couse

• Boston Art Club: official site
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• Painting "The Housewife Looking at the Fisherman's Catch"
• Painting "Love Song (aka Moonlight)"
• Painting "The Bird Jar"
• Painting "The Medicine Maker"
• Painting "Pottery Vendor" (1916)