John Enser

American (1898-1962)

Born in Texas, Enser studied art as a young man at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Chicago Academy of Fine Art. In 1929, he moved to Lexington, Massachusetts and became friends with Herman Dudley Murphy. In Boston, he exhibited oils and watercolors with the Guild of Boston Artists as well as at the National Academy of Design, the Witte Museum in San Antonio and at Vose Galleries in Boston. Enser eventually settled in New Hampshire, and became well-known as a landscape painter, often depicting New Hampshire’s Mount Monadnock. A painter, etcher and illustrator, Enser was also a painting instructor at the Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts.