biography of Eanger Irving COUSE (1866-1936)

Birth place: Saginaw, MI

Death place: Albuquerque, NM

Addresses: Taos, NM

Profession: Painter

Studied: AIC, 1884; NAD; Académie Julian, Paris, with Robert-Fleury, Bouguereau, 1886-90, G. Ferrier 1892-93; …cole des Beaux-Arts, Paris.

Exhibited: Paris Salon, 1888-96, 1898-99; SC, 1890 (prize), 1900 (prize), 1917 (prize); AIC; NAD, 1891-1900 (prize), 1902 (prize), 1903 (prize), 1911 (gold med), 1912 (prize), 1916 (prize), 1921 (prize); PAFA, 1893-1906,1915-28 (med., 1921);Boston AC, 1899-1909; Am. Expo, Buffalo, 1901 (prize); St. Louis Expo, 1904 (medals); Corcoran Gal, 1907-28; Lotos Club, 1910 (prize); Pan-Pacific Expo, San Francisco, 1915 (medal)

Member: ANA, 1902; NA, 1911; Lotos Club; NAC; Taos SA, 1912 (first pres.); SPNY; All. AA; AFA.

Work: NGA; MMA; BM; Dallas Mus.; Smith College; Lotos Club; St. Paul (MN) Mus.; Grace Church, Harrisburg, PA; Detroit Inst.; Nat. Arts Club; AM Montclair, NJ; Fort Worth Mus.; Butler AI; Santa Barbara (CA) Mus.; TMA; Nashville (TN) Mus.; CMA; Milwaukee AI; capitol, Jefferson City, MO; San Diego Mus.; AM, Topeka; Gilcrease IA, Tulsa; Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa.

Comments: Predominantly a studio painter. While in Paris, Couse met and married a woman from Oregon. They moved there and he painted Northwest Indians. He spent the next 10 years in Normandy painting pastorals and marines and then returned to a studio in NYC. In 1902 he made his first visit to Taos but kept his NYC winter studio until 1927, when he became a permanent Taos resident. He produced about 1,500 paintings of Indian life. Alternate spelling: Conse.

Sources: WW33; P&H Samuels, 109-110; Sotheby's, The American West: the John F. Eulich Collection," May 20, 1998; Eldredge, et al., Art in New Mexico, 1900-1945, 194-95; Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 331, 332; Falk, Exh. Record Series.