Walter H Everett was one of the most popular and well-regarded American illustrators of the early twentieth-century, a period known as the Golden Age of Illustration, yet his legacy all but disappeared from history. During this pre-modern media era, national magazines were the center of popular culture. The pages of these periodicals were the entertainment for the masses, and their illustrators charged with capturing the essence of the time and imagination of the country.

Everett’s style was born from the famed Brandywine school, named after the colony of artists working in the Brandywine Valley. He was a student of Howard Pyle, often called the Father of American Illustration. He was a peer to the great N.C. Wyeth, illustrator of Treasure Island and other American classics. And he was predecessor to Norman Rockwell as a cover artist at The Saturday Evening Post. From the late 1900s-1930s, he gained national acclaim for works frequently found in such magazines such as Scribner’s, Ladies Home Journal, McCall’s and Colliers.