Eanger Irving Couse was an American artist and a founding member and first president of the Taos Society of Artists. Born and reared in Saginaw, Michigan, he went to New York City and Paris to study art. While spending summers in Taos, New Mexico, he began to make the paintings of Native Americans, New Mexico, and the American Southwest for which he is best known. He later settled full time in Taos.
Eanger Irving Couse
Elk-Foot of the Taos Tribe (1909)
The Historian, by E. Irving Couse, painted in 1902
Couse contentment
The Taos Society of Artists was an organization of visual arts founded in Taos, New Mexico. Established in 1915, it was disbanded in 1927. The Society was essentially a commercial cooperative, as opposed to a stylistic collective, and its foundation contributed to the development of the tiny Taos art colony into an international art center.
Taos Pueblo, Joseph Henry Sharp, 1893 illustration for Harper's Weekly
E. Irving Couse, The Historian, 1902
E. Irving Couse, Lovers (Indian Love Song), 1905
E. Irving Couse, Contentment, 1918