Mountain Village Landscape, watercolor, signed
l/l,
16" x 20" sight, 24"
x 28"
frame.
About the Painting: Very good condition.
About the Artist: From St. Louis, Missouri, where Ennis studied
at the Art School of Washington University,
the artist went to New York to benefit from
William Merritt Chase's instruction. He exhibited
fifty-eight works (mostly watercolors) at
the Art Institute of Chicago between 1920
and 1935. During the same period (1919-32)
he exhibited at the National Academy of Design
and at the Pennsylvania Academy between 1921
and 1936. Besides pastel, drawing and watercolor,
Ennis executed stained glass windows, for
example those at the Chapel of the U.S. Military
Academy at West Point and at the New York
Athletic Club. In New York Ennis opened his
own school of painting and led a summer school
at Eastport, Maine. He was fond of maritime
subject matter and themes of fishermen at
work. Ennis was a member of several artists'
social organizations and he served as president
of the American Water Color Society (1930-36).
Ennis wrote the column on watercolor painting
for the Encyclopedia Britannica. A car crash
ended Ennis's life at the young age of fifty-two.
A number of his important works, including his largest portrait, are in the permanent collection of The Peavey
Memorial Library, Eastport, Maine.
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