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Robert Enlow Paintings - May 14-30, 2024
Robert Enlow Paintings - May 14-30, 2024
The Friends of the New Providence Memorial Library are hosting a show and sale of paintings by former local artist Robert Enlow (1919 - 2012).
The show will be on display at the NPML May 14 through May 30 in the library reading room.
Inquiries to purchase a painting can be directed to the New Providence Historical Society at 908 665-1034 or to staff at the library front desk. Payment via check goes directly to the NP Historical Society and helps support the society’s annual N.P. High School Senior Scholarship and the mission of the Society.
The works of art by Enlow, on display in the library, were donated to the Historical Society and are being sold to the public as a fund-raising event. The society is a nonprofit 501(c )(3) organization.
The late Robert Enlow lived in New Providence with wife Barbara, from 1951 to 2003, and considered himself a self-taught artist. He retired in1982, after 16 years as circulation manager of the Wall Street Journal. He said he began painting “seriously” at a time when he was between jobs. He had left his prior position as marketing manager for the International Division of Ford Motor Company, rather than move to Chicago, he said; and turned to his paints and brushes to keep from going crazy. But he had begun painting long before that.
Born in Maryland, he had started drawing and painting at age 8, a year after his family moved to East Orange, NJ. A 1940 graduate of Rutgers University, where he received a bachelor of science degree in business administration. He was in the Air Force during World War II, serving in Central and South America as a special agent of the War Department in the Counter Intelligence Corps.
He continued to travel, in civilian life, with the job with Ford entailing extensive travel. Wherever he went he took pictures, some of which became the basis of some of his later paintings.
Enlow created a collection called “Windows Into the Past- Historic New Providence”, which was inspired by the 100th anniversary of the incorporation of New Providence, in 1999. Some of these painting of historic buildings in town remain in the society’s collection. Bob was a member and officer of the historical society, in the 1990’s.
South Wall of the Adult reading area
West Wall of the Adult Reading Area
The Friends of the New Providence Memorial Library are hosting a show and sale of paintings by former local artist Robert Enlow (1919 - 2012).
The show will be on display at the NPML May 14 through May 30 in the library reading room.
Inquiries to purchase a painting can be directed to the New Providence Historical Society at 908 665-1034 or to staff at the library front desk. Payment via check goes directly to the NP Historical Society and helps support the society’s annual N.P. High School Senior Scholarship and the mission of the Society.
The works of art by Enlow, on display in the library, were donated to the Historical Society and are being sold to the public as a fund-raising event. The society is a nonprofit 501(c )(3) organization.
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