Background
Couse, Eanger Irving was born on September 3, 1866 in Saginaw, Michigan, United States. Son of M. S. and Mary J. (Price) Couse.
Couse, Eanger Irving was born on September 3, 1866 in Saginaw, Michigan, United States. Son of M. S. and Mary J. (Price) Couse.
Pupil National Academy Design, New York, and Bouguereau, Fleury and École des Beau Arts, Paris.
Awards: Shaw prize for black and white at Salmagundi Club. 1899, Proctor prize, 1900. 2d Hallgarten prize, National Academy Design, 1900, 1st Hallgarten prize, 1902.
Honorable mention, Paris Exposition, 1900, Buffalo Exposition, 1901.
Bronze medal, Saint Louis Exposition, 1904. Isidor gold medal, 1911, Carnegie prize, 1912, and Altman prize, 1916, National Academy of Design.
Silver medal, Panama Philippine Islands Exposition, 1915, Isidor prize, Salmagundi Club, 1917. West. Lippincott prize of $300 P.A.F.A., 1921.
His best known pictures are: “The Forest Camp,” “An Indian Camp,” “The War Pony” (Indian subjects) and “Adoration of the Shepherds” (in Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania).
Representative in permanent collections of Brooklyn Institute Arts and Sciences, Smith College Museum, at Saint Paul, Minnesota, Dallas, Texas, and Detroit Museum of Art, National Gallery, Washington, Montclair Art Museum, Omaha Gallery, Metropolitan Museum, New York, Santa Barbara Museum, Fort Worth Museum, Toledo Museum, Milwaukee The Art Institute of Chicago, Nashville Art Association, Ranger Fund Purchase, National Academy of Design, 1921, et cetera A.N.A., 1902, North.A., 1911. Studio: Taos, North.M.
Married Virginia Walker, September 5, 1889. 1 child, Kibbey Whitman.