John F. Enser (Ennis, TX, 1898 - 1968, New Ipswich, NH) Enser, John F. 1898-1968. San Antonio. Painter, commercial artist, teacher, illustrator, graphic artist, car-toonist.Enser was born in Ennis and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Academy of Fine Arts, Chicago. He was a student of Hermann Dudley Murphy and José Arpa. 9Y Early in his career, Enser was a cartoonist and illustrator and taught for a time at Boston University. He was a resident of Concord, Massachusetts, in 1934 where he taught in the public schools; in the 1940s, he resided in Lexington, Massachusetts, where he taught at Middlesex School.He retained for a time a Texas domicile. He lived afterward in New Hampshire where he was known as the"Mount Monadnock Painter." Enser died in a hospital in New Ipswich, New Hampshire.Exhibitions: Texas Artists Exhibition, San Antonio Art League (1926); San Antonio Artists Guild (1927);Annual Texas Artists Exhibition, Fort Worth (1927-33, 1936-37); San Antonio Artists Guild (1927); Edgar B.Davis Competition, San Antonio (1927, 1929);Southern States Art League Annual Exhibition (1929-30, 1933-34, 1936-37); Annual Texas Cotton Palace Exposition, Waco 1930); San Antonio Local Artists Annual Exhibition (1930-32); Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York (1933-34, 1937-38); Pabst Galleries, San Antonio(1934); Greater Texas and Pan-American Exposition, Dallas (1937); Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio (1942 one-man); Hock Shop Collection: Rediscovering Texas Artists of the Past, Center for the Visual Arts, Denton (1998); Boston Art Club; Dayton (Ohio) Art Institute.Collections: U.S. Post Office, Boston; Brockton (Massachusetts) City Hall; Cary Memorial Library, Lexington, Massachusetts.Affiliations: North Shore Art Association,Association,Gloucester, Massachusetts; Palette and Chisel Club, San Antonio; San Antonio Art League; Southern States Art League; Texas Fine Arts Association.References: Bénézit; Dawdy; Falk; Mallett, Index, O'Brien; Who's Who in American Art 1-3;Petersborough (New Hampshire) Transcript, Jan. 2, 1969.