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Eanger Irving Couse
Chief Shoppenegons, 1910
oil on canvas
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Artist Eanger Irving Couse, American, 1866-1936
Title
  • Chief Shoppenegons
Date 1910
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions Unframed: 78 × 36 inches (198.1 × 91.4 cm)
Framed: 91 7/8 × 49 3/4 × 3 1/2 inches (233.4 × 126.4 × 8.9 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Charles Willis Ward
Accession Number 11.4
Department American Art before 1950
On View Native American S130, Level 1 (see map)
Signed, Marks, Inscriptions
Signed Signed, lower right: E-I-COUSE-N. A.- c
Provenance
Charles Willis Ward (commissioned by same in 1907).
1911-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Published References
"A Loan Exhibition of Paintings Belonging to Mr. Chas. Willis Ward, of New York City." Bulletin of the DMA 2, 4 (October 1908): pp. 51-52.

"A Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Belonging to Mr. Chas. Willis Ward, of New York City." Bulletin of the DMA (1910): p. 52.

"Charles Willis Ward, Esq., Gives Another Painting to the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Particular Significance to Michigan." Bulletin of the DMA 5, 3 (July 1911): p. 27.

Burroughs, Clyde H. "Painting and Sculpture in Michigan." Michigan History Magazine (Autumn 1936-1937): p. 54.

Gibson, A. H. Artists of Early Michigan. Detroit, 1975, p. 80 (ill.).

Woloshuk, Nicholas. E. Irving Couse. Santa Fe, 1976, p. 6, (ill.).

Rosenau, Arthur W. Lakeside: A History of Lakeside Association on Higgins Lake. Lakeside, MI, 1979, p. 34 (ill.).

Pohrt, R. A. "Nineteenth Century Michigan Chippewa Costume: Photographs of David Shoppenagons." American Indian Art 11, 3 (Summer 1986): pp. 44-45 (fig. 1).

Leavitt, Virginia Couse. "Eanger Irving Couse." Artists of Michigan from the Nineteenth Century. Muskegon, MI, 1987, pp. 165-167, (ill.).

Artists of Michigan in the Nineteenth Century. Exh. cat., Muskegon Museum of Art. Muskegon, MI, 1987, pp. 165-166 (ill.).

May, George S. Michigan: An Illustrated History of the Great Lakes State. Northridge, CA, 1988, n.p.

Damp, Darlene B. "Story Behind the Chief's Portrait: Couse's First Shoppenagons Effort Met With Patron's Disapproval." The Saginaw News (March 3, 1990): p. B1.