page_title: E. Irving Couse
section_title: Death
hierarchical_section_title: E. Irving Couse / Death
caption_attribution_description: English: Grave marker of E. Irving Couse, Sierra View Cemetery, Taos, New Mexico.
context_page_description: Eanger Irving Couse was an American artist and a founding member and first president of the Taos Society of Artists. Born and reared in Saginaw, Michigan, he went to New York City and Paris to study art. While spending summers in Taos, he began to make the paintings of Native Americans, New Mexico, and the American Southwest for which he is best known. He later settled full time in Taos.
  His house and studio in Taos have been preserved as the Eanger Irving Couse House and Studio—Joseph Henry Sharp Studios. The complex is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the New Mexico Register of Cultural Properties. His work was also part of the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1932 Summer Olympics.
context_section_description: Couse died in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1936.  He is buried at Sierra View Cemetery in Taos.
caption: Couse's marker at Sierra View Cemetery
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