Couse (pronounced to rhyme with "house")
was born to a farming family in 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.

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 coast.
Between 1893 and 1896, he lived at the Etaples art colony, where he painted its streets and fisher folk, including Coastal Scene, Etaples.
Couse (pronounced to rhyme with "house")
was born to a farming family in 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.
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 coast. Between 1893 and 1896, he lived at the Etaples art colony, where he painted its streets and fisher folk, including Coastal Scene, Etaples.
E. Irving Couse