About John Enser

  • Biography

    Born in Ennis, Texas, John Enser became a painter known for landscapes, especially those painted in the Monadnock region of New Hampshire. He lived primarily in New England but traveled regularly to Texas and Mexico and made a trip to England and Belgium in 1938.

    Enser became an influential teacher with a career at Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts; the School of Practical Arts and Letters at Boston University; and the Vesper George School.

    As a young man, he studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and with Jose Arpa. He was also a newspaper illustrator there as well as an etcher.

    In 1929, he moved to Lexington, Massachusetts and became friends with Herman Dudley Murphy (1...

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