The Quiet Presence of Jo Enthoven To look at the surviving works of Jo Enthoven is to encounter a specific, localized Dutch sensibility that refuses to shout. Born in 1898 in Roosendaal, Enthoven did not seek the grandiosity of international movements, focusing instead on the immediate reality of the object. The work remains grounded in a certain Dutch pragmatism, a refusal to embellish the mundane. By the time of death in 1956 in Den…