Background
Ennis, George Pearse was born on July 21, 1884 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Son of Allen Rucker and Lillie Webber (Pearse) Ennis.
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George Pearse Ennis
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Educated Art School of Washington University, Holmes Art School, Chicago, and Chase School, New York, under William M. Chase.
Career
Principal works: stained glass windows, New York Athletic Club, Church of All Nations, New York. Victory windows, Military Chapel, New York Military Academy. Mural decorations and stained glass windows, Unitarian Church, Eastport, Maine, First Baptist Church, Jamaica, Long Island, Presbyterian Church, Cornwall, New York.
4 figure medallion windows and one figure window, Methodist Episcopal Church Home of New York, Inc. Wind-swept birches collection University of Arkansas. Estey’s head Syracuse Museum.
31 pencil drawings and 15 oils for the making of big guns, 1918, authorized by the United States Ordnance Department. Also sketches for the United States Air Service. Stained glass window for Washington Hall, United States Military Academy.
Membership
Fellow American Geography Society Director Eastport (Maine) Summer School of Art and Geo. Pearse Ennis School of Painting (New York). Wrote: Making Water Colour, 1933.
Connections
Married Gladys Atwood.
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American
Awards
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Awarded the Shaw prize by Salmagundi Club, New York, 1922. William Church Osborn prize, 1926. Gallatin prize for landscape, 1927. Isador prizes in water color and pencil drawing, 1924. Kramer prize, The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, 1922. Philadelphia Water Color prize, 1930. also Dana gold medal. Wilmington Society Fine Arts purchase prize, 1931. Mistress Carll Tucker prize ($200), New York Water Color Club, 1932. Works on exhibition in National Academy Design, New York, Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts, Philadelphia, The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, Albright Gallery, Buffalo. Held commission Air Service, United States of America, World War.Awarded the Shaw prize by Salmagundi Club, New York, 1922. William Church Osborn prize, 1926. Gallatin prize for landscape, 1927.
Isador prizes in water color and pencil drawing, 1924. Kramer prize, The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, 1922. Philadelphia Water Color prize, 1930. also Dana gold medal.
Wilmington Society Fine Arts purchase prize, 1931. Mistress Carll Tucker prize ($200), New York Water Color Club, 1932. Works on exhibition in National Academy Design, New York, Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts, Philadelphia, The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, Albright Gallery, Buffalo.
Held commission Air Service, United States of America, World War.