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Everett Warner
"On the Wharf" Everett Warner, Marine Town Scene, American Impressionism

circa 1930

About the Item

Everett Warner On the Wharf Signed lower left Oil on panel 15 x 20 inches Provenance Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme, Connecticut Everett Warner was born in the small Iowa town of Vinton, where his father practiced law.. The Riggs family, his mother's ancestors, were well-known missionaries who spent years working closely with the Dakota Sioux Indians, translating and conserving their native tongue. After his father was named Examiner for the Bureau of Pensions, Warner relocated to Washington, DC, after spending a portion of his early years in Iowa. Warner attended seminars at the Washington Art Students League and the Corcoran Gallery of Art when he was finishing high school. After that, he worked for the Washington Evening Star for a number of years as an art critic. He relocated to New York in 1900, where he studied under illustrator Walter Clark and figurative painter George Bridgman at the Art Students League. Warner shipped paintings from New York to prominent museums, such as the National Academy of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Art Institute of Chicago. With the money he made from selling paintings, Warner went to Europe in 1903 to study at the Académie Julian in Paris. He also visited Italy, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, and other places to sketch. After relocating to the United States permanently in 1909, he joined the Old Lyme Art Colony in Old Lyme, Connecticut, which had established itself as a prominent hub for American Impressionism because to the support of art patron Florence Griswold. Warner took home two medals at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915: one for painting and one for bronze. After serving as the officer in charge of the American Army's Camouflage Corps during World War I, Homer Saint-Gaudens (son of renowned sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens) insisted that Warner be appointed as an associate professor of painting and design at Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1924. Warner remained in this role until 1942. He sent a letter to the US Navy in early 1941 offering his skills after seeing a film that showed what he believed to be unprofessional dazzle camouflage on Royal Navy ships. The Navy turned down his offer at the time because they did not expect to use disruptive camouflage schemes. Warner, who was 65 at the time, was requested to rejoin the Navy in the summer of 1942 after the United States entered World War II. He was to work as Chief Civilian Aid to Commander Charles Bittinger, a personal friend from his previous years, on ship camouflage design. In the years following World War I, ship deception requirements evolved along with observational tactics. Although a large portion of American ship camouflage during World War II was misleading and disruptive (as opposed to aimed at invisibility), the new, restrained geometric style—perhaps reminiscent of Modern Art—was very different from the dazzling designs of the previous conflict. Warner was released from the Navy at the end of World War II. He left teaching at the age of 68 and moved to Westmoreland, New Hampshire, to live with his family. Warner focused on writing about art instead than painting anymore. On October 20, 1963, Warner passed away at the age of 86 after a heart attack.
  • Creator:
    Everett Warner (1877 - 1963, American)
  • Creation Year:
    circa 1930
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 23 in (58.42 cm)Width: 25 in (63.5 cm)
  • More Editions & Sizes:
    Unique workPrice: $7,000
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  • Gallery Location:
    New York, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1841216343202

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