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New Mexico Stories: Eanger Irving Couse, Painter, Charter Member of the Taos Society of Artists (1866 – 1936)
A native of Saginaw, Michigan, Couse painted houses as a young man to earn enough money to attend the Art Institute of Chicago He also studied at the National Academy of Design and at the Julian Academie in Paris. He spent a number of years living and painting in Oregon and on the coast of Normandy. Because Joseph Sharp and Ernest Blumenschein recommended it, Couse visited Taos in 1902 and thereafter spent his summers in New Mexico.
When the Taos Society of Artists was organized in 1915, Couse was elected the first president. He moved to the Land of Enchantment permanently in 1927. Couse spent a lot of time painting the Taos Pueblo people. They called him “Green Mountain” because of his stature and because he frequently wore a green sweater. He produced about 1,500 paintings during his lifetime. He died in Albuquerque.
Coke, Taos and Santa Fe
Meadowlark Gallery: The Artists Biographies
Nelson, Legendary Artists of Taos
Samuels, The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia
Schimmel & White, Bert Geer Phillips
Witt, The Taos Artists
Text from the NEW MEXICO HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHIES, by Don Bullis. Publisher: Rio Grande Books
Image: Kachina Painter (1917) oil on canvas 35 x 46 inches, from ARTFIX daily.
From Territory to Statehood: Artists of New Mexico
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