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Walter H Everett

American Illustrator
1880 - 1946
Master Artist
1880 - 1946

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Apologies for the break! Summer has been a whirlwind but happy to be back! This piece was suggest by a good friend of the collection and I think it was a brilliant call out. In really looking at it, I don't know that I ever noticed the beauty of the A moody and elegant moment. The richness of the scenery and the lamp offers a gorgeous unique source of backlight. #painter #oiloncanvas #composition #illustrator #goldenageofillustrators #walterheverett #roaring20s #illustrationart #narrativepaint Cover art for The Ladies Home Journal, May 1914. Over his career, Walter H Everett illustrated dozens of works for The Ladies Home Journal between 1902 and 1935. It was one of the first magazine's that he was published in and, as far as we can tell, Harper's Bazaar, June 1918. #walterheverett #painter #oiloncanvas #storyart #illustrationart #goldenageofillustration #arthistorynerd #narrativepainting #illustrator #brandywineschoolofart #composition #instaartist "Stream Behind the House" - date and publication unknown. I often overlooked this piece as I was captured by the more iconic figurative works that he did. But the simplicity and quiet calm of the work is growing on me. Do you have any wo Another work that is distinctive of a latter career style - blocks of light and limiting the palette two just a few colors (in this case three colors: pink, green and brown). I really wish I knew where the original was and what this story is here! R Fruit blossoms - a watercolor. One of several lost works but a beauty to behold. The sure and steady hand. The soft elegant color palate. And that classic blocked style of light reflection that we've seen in many of his later oils and watercolors. Oil on canvas. One of a relatively few landscapes that we know of by Walter H Everett. We call it "Field of Wheat". I love the details of the brush strokes, the rich use of color, and the inviting composition which seems to welcome you on a A woman, a young boy, and a model boat. The colors of the leaves are what calls to me... Image courtesy of Kevin Ferrar. #oiloncanvas #twentiethcenturyart #brandywineschoolofart #walterheverett #waltereverett #illustratorsoninstagram #storyart #nar "He looked up ... in the blue sky overhead, two buzzards." October 1919, "Towers of Silence" by Donn Byrne, Hearst's Magazine. #oiloncanvas #monochrome #walterheverett #goldenageofillustration #brandywineschoolofart #illustratio In 1899 Walter H Everett enrolled in Drexel University in Philadelphia to study under the Father of American Illustration, Howard Pyle. To say that Pyle was a force in the art world was an understatement. He was a revolutionary, a visionary, and an i That ear is just so beautiful - A phrase I never imagined writing. Portrait of an unknown woman. Pencil on paper. Given the typical periods of works in the Everett Family Collection and the style, I am guessing it was drafted in the mid-1930s. #wa "Easter Memories" This is a high res scan of a first edition print from the April 1914 issue of Ladies Home Journal. In the detailed views of the man and stained glass, you can see the hallmark matrix dots from the printing process. #pai This piece is one of the two last known published works by WHE from the April 1935 Ladies Home Journal. Illustrating the story "A Song in the Town" by Brooke Hanlon. Thanks to an Etsy post that happened to take a photo of this work for a Posting these buttonwood trees , a work we call "Trees on the Farm", again, because I absolutely love the colors, composition, and mood of this painting. And this time I am including a sketch for the work that I found in our files. I don't