*This painting is sold but the artist is regularly available in our inventory		John Joseph Enneking* American, 1841-1916 Autumn Landscape 1891 Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower right 17 x 24 inches Framed 26 x 33 inches The paintings of Enneking are valuable for their sober vigor and for their sincerity of expression. He captured natural phenomena on canvas, and he stamped his creations with a character all their own. He didn’t need to follow Monet of Inness, although he learned from them both. However, it is Enneking’s individuality that attracts attention to his pictures and that is why he has been called “the great landscape painter”, the “interpreter of New England”, and he is definitely an American Impressionist. In this fall scene, everything holds together in the same atmosphere, permeated by the half-melancholy sweetness of the waning year. One can hear the dropping acorns from crimson oaks. There is an abundance of subtle color, handled apparently with no restraint. Gathering in the sparkling, clear pool are some of the best aspects of American Impressionism. In his autumn paintings a broad expanse of sky is seldom seen, often are quiet half-light pictures. No sun, no sky, no moon, no comfortable feeling in any member. It is a real New England November of soft skies and brilliant lights, fading off into deep, mysterious shadows. Just sufficiently idealized to catch the soul of a November afternoon, the picture is both strong and exquisitely satisfying. The locale in which Autumn Landscape was painted could have been near the artist’s summer home in North Newry, Maine, or, more likely, within the Blue Hills region near his home in Hyde Park, now a part of Boston. Enneking enjoyed the landscape of the Blue Hills so much that he was instrumental in establishing the Blue Hills as a protected reservation, and one of its parkways is named for him. During his career, Enneking was well known and successful in American art, exhibiting to critical acclaim, receiving numerous awards, and having his work acquired for collections in major U.S. museums. Exhibited Williams & Everett Gallery Boston Arts Club, 1874-1909 Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics’ Association, Boston (medals) National Academy of Design, 1881 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, 1883, 1892, 1896-1902 Paris Expo, 1900 (prize) Pan-American Expo, Buffalo, 1901 (medal) Art Institute of Chicago, 1900, 1912 Corcoran Gallery, 1907, 1910 Pan-Pacific Expo, San Francisco, 1915 (gold) Vose Gallery, Boston, 1917 (memorial exhibition), 1923, 1926, 1962, 1975 (all solos) Memberships Twentieth Century Club Pudding Stone Club Hyde Park Historical Society Boston Arts Club; Paint & Clay Club Boston Guild Artists Collections Worcester Museum Boston Museum of Fine Arts George Walter Vincent Smith Museum Mead Art Museum Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield Farnsworth Art Museum The University of Michigan Museum of Art Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery The Columbus Museum of Art Butler Institute of American Art Cheekwood Museum of Art & Botanical Garden El Paso Museum of Art The Washington County Museum of Fine Art Worcester Museum