Ranger irving couse biography for kids

Eanger Irving Couse (1866–1936) was an American artist and a founding member and first president of the Taos Society of Artists. He is noted for paintings of Native Americans, New Mexico, and the American Southwest.

His house and studio in Taos have been preserved as the Couse/Sharp Historic Site, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the New Mexico Register of Cultural Properties.

Early life and education

Couse (pronounced to rhyme with "house"[1]) was born to a farming family in Saginaw, Michigan.

As a boy, he started drawing members of the Chippewa tribe who lived nearby.

Ranger irving couse biography for kids

He attended local schools as a child and continued to work at art.

Couse left Michigan for professional art studies at the Art Institute of Chicago and the National Academy of Design, New York. He went to Paris, where he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and Académie Julian under William-Adolphe Bouguereau.

He lived in France for 10 years, painting mostly landscapes of the Normandy