Inge Jannen Heus
2002 Honored Member

In a year when the whole world is focused on New York City, it is appropriate that the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club’s honored member is Inge Jannen Heus, a native New Yorker who uses  its architecture, views and weather as primary sources of inspiration for her watercolors. These images achieve mood and atmosphere by the application of paint with a spray bottle to diffuse the color for misty effects.

Her painting of the newly restored Grand Central Station won acclaim at the CLWAC’s 2001 Members Exhibition. Light is the essence of her many paintings of the city’s Central Park - light as it touches a pavilion, a boat house or a bridge lending an air of mystery and timelessness. Her paintings of the city’s brownstones also focus on light, mood and weather. Her floral paintings are lovingly depicted.

A cum laude graduate of Adelphi University, Inge was a business major with some elective courses in art history, but not until 1971, when she studied still life at the Art Students League with Mario Cooper, did she become fascinated with watercolor - a fascination that continues today. She took workshops with many great watercolorists and teacher, including Ed Whitney, Carl Malmo, Betty Lou Schlemm and Ruth Baderian, and art courses at many New York schools including Pratt Institute, Parsons School of Design, and Cooper Union. She also studied pastel with Daniel Greene and Richard Pionk.

She has been an active member of the Salmagundi Club since 1978 serving on
committees and as club secretary; CLWAC; and Knickerbocker Artists. She is a life member of the Art Students League. Other New York venues for her work have been the American Watercolor Society and Pen & Brush Club. Her work has been shown at the Guild Hall in Easthampton, in Westchester County with the Hudson Valley Art Association, and in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Her work is in many private collections including those of Windsor & Newton Company, the East River Savings Bank, and a Russian diplomat living in Moscow. She has performed demonstrations of her techniques, has been filmed for a CNBC documentary, and has taught watercolor privately.

“Great Hall, Grand Central Station”

Inge has won many awards for her floral, still life and landscape works, from the CLWAC, the Washington Square Outdoor Exhibit, the Salmagundi Club, and the annual juried watercolor exhibit of the Church of the Covenant in NYC. She is a recipient of the “Creative Hands Award” which CLWAC gives for dedicated service to the club and to the interests of women artists.

“Gapstow Bridge, Central Park”

 “Winter Evening, Central Park South”

Many adjectives come to mind when one thinks of Inge: gentle, gracious, competent, responsible, honest, warm. She has been the backbone of CLWAC for many years. As Treasurer, she has kept the club on a solid financial footing, and she served as Annual Exhibition Catalog Chairwoman and has chaired the annual Members’ Exhibition and Annual Luncheon. This club would not be the strong, vital organization it is without the efforts and hard work of this gallant lady.

“The Carousel, Central Park”

We salute and honor our long-time officer and member, Inge Jannen Heus.

1979 Sally Swan Carr
1983 Diana Kan
1985 Carey Boone Nelson
1990 Adrienne Potter
1991 Marilyn Newmark
1993 Sybil D'Orsi
1994 Lucille Hampton
1995 Lucille Stillma
1997 Beverly Bender
1998 Mary Lou Ferbert
1999 Dorothy Dallas
2000 Virginia Abbot

2001 Francine “Franke” DeBevoise
2002 Inge Jannen Heus
2003 Jean Kroeber
2004 Eleanor Tyndall Meier
2005 Ruth B. Reiber
2006 Elaine Lavalle
2007 Lucille Berrill Paulsen
2008 Gaile Snow Gibbs
2009 Amy Bright Unfried
2010 Mary Maran
2011 Gabriela G. Delosso