Chief Shoppenegons

1910

Eanger Irving Couse American, 1866-1936

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Native American, Level 1, South Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Chief Shoppenegons

Artwork Date 1910

Artist Eanger Irving Couse

Life Dates 1866-1936

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

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)

Classification Paintings

Department American Art before 1950

Credit Gift of Charles Willis Ward

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 11.4

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Signed Signed, lower right: E-I-COUSE-N. A.- c

Provenance

1907, commissioned by Charles Willis Ward;
1911-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

"A Loan Exhibition of Paintings Belonging to Mr. Chas. Willis Ward, of New York City." Bulletin of the DMA 2, no. 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, no. 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, Michigan, 1979, p. 34 (ill.).

Pohrt, R. A. "Nineteenth Century Michigan Chippewa Costume: Photographs of David Shoppenagons." American Indian Art 11, no. 3 (Summer 1986): pp. 44-45 (fig. 1).

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

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

May, George S. Michigan: An Illustrated History of the Great Lakes State. Northridge, California, 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.

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