Walter hunt Everett

Born in Haddonfield, New Jersey to George and Jane Everett, Walter was one of 10 children who survived past infancy. As a teenager, he rode his bicycle from his family home to downtown Philadelphia to attend the Drexel Institute of Art in Philadelphia where he studied under the Father of American Illustration, Howard Pyle.

When Pyle decided to leave the institutional world to create his own unique brand of teaching, he invited only a handful of his most promising proteges. Of them, Walter was one selected to learn from the master.

By 1904, Walter was working regularly as an illustrator for The Saturday Evening Post and other national publications. He served as lead instructor of illustration at the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Arts from .He worked steadily from his Delaware and Philadelphia studios in his early career, before retreating to a farm in Pottstown, Pennsylvania in the late 1930s where he focused on private classes.

Over his nearly forty-year career, he became 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.