John F. Enser (1898-1968) American

John F. Enser (1898-1968) American
John F. Enser (1898-1968) Oil on canvas, signed lower right, piece measures 10 x 14 and 14 x 18.5 icnhes w/ frame. Born in Ennis, Texas, John Enser moved to Chicago to study painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and the Art Institute, and sponsored himself by making illustrations for newspapers. In 1929 he came to Boston, where he struck up a close friendship with Hermann Dudley Murphy (1867-1945). Enser settled in Lexington and worked in a studio at the Murphy’s home. In the mid – 1940s he married Dierdre Cotter, a young woman whom he had met when she was doing secretarial work for the Murphy’s.
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