Eanger Irving Couse on the Columbia River

Download or read book Eanger Irving Couse on the Columbia River written by Steven L. Grafe and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-21 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eanger Irving Couse enrolled in Paris' Académie Julian in 1886. The following year, he met Virginia Jane Walker, a student at the nearby Académie Colarossi. Virginia had previously studied art in Philadelphia and New York, but her home was in Klickitat County, Washington, where her parents had owned a ranch since 1867. Irving Couse and Virginia Walker were married in 1889, and they soon began making plans to visit the Walker Ranch.The couple arrived in the Pacific Northwest in 1891 and eventually moved into a stone studio that they built on to existing ranch buildings. There, Couse began painting uniquely American subjects—American Indians. The Couses returned to France in the fall of 1892 and remained there until 1896, when they began a two-year-long residence at the Walker Ranch. They then divided their time between New York City and Europe, then New York and Taos, New Mexico, returning to Washington State in the summers of 1901 and 1904. They ultimately became permanent residents of Taos and Couse was elected the first president of the Taos Society of Artists in 1915, an association with which he is now well known. Although his reputation was made in New Mexico, he began his career painting images of Indians in the dry hills above the Columbia River.