John Joseph Enneking

(1841-1916)

Shaded Pool also titled Falling Leaves 

Painted between 1894 to 1897

Oil on canvas, 25 x 30 inches

Signed Enneking lower right

Exhibited: Mechanics Association, Boston, MA (1898); the Guild of Boston Artists, Boston, MA (no. 17, 1902, label verso); New Haven Paint & Clay Club, New Haven, CT, April 1-22, 1917,  Sixteenth Annual Exhibition (label verso) and returned to John McBrine, April 28, 1917; 1920 and 1970 Vose Galleries of Boston (label verso, no. 23856)

Provenance: artist’s personal collection; the JJ Enneking estate, 1916 (estate stamp & label verso: Florence E. Long, Grace E. Ward, J. Eliot Enneking, administrators); John McBrine, Boston, 1917; Vose Galleries of Boston to William Hlavin, OH (1970-1998); Ruth Baten Jobe, Myrtle Beach, SC (1998), bequest to her daughter Patricia Jobe Pierce (1999)

Literature: Enneking Catalogue Raisonné, P.J. Pierce,

number IV-A-220

Period gold leaf hand-carved frame 

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