“Walter Everett is often judged to be one of the finest painter-illustrators of the Golden age.”
— Society of Illustrators (Hall of Fame, 2014)
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.
He was a student of Howard Pyle, often called the Father of American Illustration, a peer to the great N.C. Wyeth, illustrator of Treasure Island and other American classics, and a predecessor to Norman Rockwell as a cover artist at The Saturday Evening Post.
From the late 1900s-1930s, Everett gained national acclaim for works frequently found in such magazines such as Scribner’s, Ladies Home Journal, McCall’s and Colliers.