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GEORGE PEARSE ENNIS (1884/1936), AMERICAN ARTIST – Short life, between watercolors and stained glass window.

Inside expressive use of strong colors, evocative landscapes and seascapes,

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GEORGE PEARSE ENNIS was born in Missouri into a July day, becoming an artist best known for his watercolors and for the stained glass window he designed for the cadet mess hall at West Point. After studied at Washington University, St. Louis and at the Chase School, he worked in New York City, but after the 1920s, in Eastport (Maine). He died following an automobile crash. His principal works? Stained glass windows, New York Athletic Club, Church of All Nations, New York. Victory windows, Military Chapel, New York Military Academy.

He exhibited works (mostly watercolors) at the Art Institute of Chicago between 1920 and 1935, and also at the National Academy of Design and at the Pennsylvania Academy. GEORGE PEARSE ENNIS was a member of several artists’ social organizations and he served as president of the American Water Color Society. In New York, he opened his own school of painting and led a summer school at Eastport, (Maine), where he was fond of maritime subject matter and themes of fishermen at work. His Mural decorations and stained glass windows? Unitarian Church, Eastport, Maine, First Baptist Church, Jamaica, Long Island, Presbyterian Church, Cornwall, New York.

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