John Joseph Enneking
John Joseph Enneking (October 4, 1841 – November 16, 1916) was an American Impressionist painter associated with the Boston School.[1]
Biography
Enneking was born of German ancestry in Minster, Ohio.[2] He was educated at Mount St. Mary's College, Cincinnati, served in the American Civil War in 1861-1862, studied art in New York and Boston, and gave it up because his eyes were weak, only to return to it after failing in the manufacture of tinware.
From 1873 to 1876 he studied in Münich under Schleich and Leier, and in Paris under Daubigny and Bonnat; and in 1878-1879 he studied in Paris again and sketched in the Netherlands. Enneking is a plein air painter, and his favorite subject is the November twilight of New England, and more generally the half lights of early spring, late autumn, and winter dawn and evening.
Enneking died at Boston in 1916.[3]
The Enneking Parkway in Hyde Park, Massachusetts is named after Enneking.[4]
References
- ↑ Volpe, Christopher. "A Legacy of Beauty: Paintings in the Boston School Tradition". Traditional Fine Arts Organization.
- ↑ Edwards, Lee M. (1986). Domestic Bliss: Family Life in American Painting, 1840-1910. Hudson River Museum. p. 122. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
- ↑ Levy, Florence Nightingale (1917). American Art Directory, Volume 14. The American Federation of the Arts. p. 322.
- ↑ Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell (2003). Roslindale. Arcadia Publishing. p. 7. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
External links
Media related to John Joseph Enneking at Wikimedia Commons
- Works by or about John Joseph Enneking at Internet Archive
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "article name needed". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.- Paintings by John J. Enneking, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF)
- Bedford Fine Art Gallery: John Joseph Enneking Artwork