Editing E. Irving Couse (section)

==Early life and education==
[[File:Eanger Irving Couse - Elk-Foot of the Taos Tribe - Google Art Project.jpg|thumbnail|''[[Elk-Foot of the Taos Tribe]]'' (1909)]]

Couse (pronounced to rhyme with "house"<ref>{{cite book |first=Charles Earle |last=Funk |author-link=Charles Earle Funk|title=What's the Name, Please? |publisher=Funk & Wagnalls |year=1936}}</ref>)
was born to a farming family in [[Saginaw, Michigan|Saginaw]], [[Michigan]].  As a boy, he started drawing members of the [[Chippewa]] tribe who lived nearby. He attended local schools as a child and continued to work at art.
[[Image:The Historian (The How and Why Library).jpg|thumb|upright|left|''The Historian'', by E. Irving Couse, painted in 1902]]
Couse left Michigan for professional art studies at the [[Art Institute of Chicago]] and the [[National Academy of Design]], [[New York City|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]] coast. Between 1893 and 1896, he lived at the [[Etaples art colony]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cousefoundation.org/eicouse.php |title=Eanger Irving Couse / Biography |work=Couse-Sharp.org |publisher=Couse Foundation |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202223338/http://www.cousefoundation.org/eicouse.php |archive-date=December 2, 2013 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> where he painted its streets and fisher folk, including ''Coastal Scene, Etaples''.