E. I. Couse

Eanger Irving Couse (1866-1936)

Eanger Irving Couse gained first hand knowledge of Chippewa Indians while growing up in Saginaw, Michigan. At the age of seventeen, he attended classes at the Art Institute of Chicago then moved to New York to study at the Art Students League and National Academy of Design. He departed for Paris in 1886 and remained there for the next ten years, working first at the Academie Julian under Adolph Bouguereau, who remained a life long influence. He may also have studied at the Ecole des Beaux-arts during the summer of 1886. After 1903 Couse spent his summers in Taos, where he help form the Taos Society of Artists (1915). He also painted Indian tribes of the Northwest, but in 1927 he settled permanently in Taos. His Indian paintings gained national recognition through publications in the calendars distributed by the Atchinson, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Co.

Source: Art in New Mexico, 1900-1945 by C. Eldredge