Signed and Dated 1985.

Thank you Paul from Merida Yucatan Mexico for contributing this beautiful picture from his collection of Van Enos. One look, I immediately recognize the woman similar to the painting I own. In both paintings, the women are wearing the similar wavy blue/yellow outfit with Van’s signature fruit-bearing trees in the background.

However, my guess is that the 2 women may not be of the same inspiration. This one has the model diva pose, the long pearl jewelry, the large rose worn at the waist and the red fingernail polish showing high fashion and esteem. It is very elegant. My painting depicts restful simplicity, laid back state - with the focus on the hair.

Thanks Paul for Sharing!

This painting measures 36 x 10. Van has been known to paint his art representative of the Zodiac Signs. This beautiful piece is for Sale at the Gallery on Greene in Key West Florida. I notice his signature red fruit that appears in most of his latter paintings before he died.

I don’t have any information about this painting except that it seems rare for Van to paint such an unusual dimension. I have heard that Van painted large canvases - after he completes and examines his work, any section that he was not happy with, he would cut out. This may just be one of those piece.

If you like more information - you may contact the Gallery on Greene directly.

Gallery On Greene
606 Greene Street
Key West, FL 33040
(305)294-1669
galleryongreene@bellsouth.net

Open 10-6 daily

What is Entrecard? Well, it’s several things. It’s a blogger community, it’s a free advertising network and it’s a game.

Basically, I put a square 125×125 (or wider) widget on my blog. The widget has an ad of another Entrecard member’s site and a base button that other Entrecard members click to let you know they visited your site. This is called “dropping”. Now for every drop you do, you get EC’s - also known as Entrecard money. With the Entrecard money you can buy ad space on other people’s sites. You also get more EC’s when others “buy” an ad on your site via the widget. So for just a little time and clicking you can get some good ad exposure and traffic.

Now for the “game” part of it. You can “drop” up to 300 times per day. So the goal is to drop all 300 in one day. The more you drop the more others drop on you, the more drops on you the more popular you are. So it’s a little like a game to see how far and fast you can climb in the hierarchy.

However, after the novelty wears off - it is difficult to visit 300 sites a day, because you will probably stop and hang ’round on some of them. I mean in this community there is a blog about everything and anything. Interested in hating cats or pink stilletos or organic beer? Somebody on Entrecard is blogging about it. I mean, you can start dropping at 1pm and the next thing you know it’s 5pm! You do have a life, Right?

Within the membership of Entrecard - there are Statistics provided to you (see pic above).
It tells how many you’ve dropped per day.
How many other have dropped on your site.
How many people clicked on your widget advert from other sites?

And a table that shows your Top 10 Droppers in the last 30 days. Well since I only joined for 1 week, here is the list of my Top Ten (as of today Sun July 13, 2008). Thank you All!

Van was not only an artist but a Poet!

Thank you Gallery on Greene for submitting this picture for this site. And thank you to the person who has a scrapbook of Van Eno memorabilias and showed them to the owner at the Gallery.

mark@vaneno.net

Here’s an article from the KEY WEST ART & HISTORICAL SOCIETY talking about another local Key West artist Jack Baron.

Jack Baron didn’t begin painting until 1977 when Burton (his partner) gave him a set of acrylic paints for his birthday. After the couple moved to Key West (in 1979), Baron painted in the back room of Carrie’s Notions where friends often gathered to chat. Baron’s impish humor wove through his conversation in much the same way it weaves through his work. One such visitor, Key West artist Bob Franke discovered him there and delighted by his style, encouraged him to continue painting. Also of great inspiration was local artist Van Eno whose intricate whimsical works were much admired by Baron. Still, Baron’s paintings might have remained in the homes of friends had not Marion Stevens, a patron of Haitian art walked through the door of Carrie’s Notions and instantly recognized the work of a true folk artist.

Link to the Page

The goal of the KWAH Society is to collect, preserve and present Key West’s history, since 1949.