11 Facts About Everett Warner

Everett Longley Warner was an American Impressionist painter and printmaker, as well as a leading contributor to US Navy camouflage during both World Wars.

Everett Warner's mother was descended from a line of prominent missionaries, who worked extensively for years with the Dakota Sioux Indians, translating and preserving their traditional language.

Everett Warner spent part of his childhood in Iowa, then moved to Washington, DC, when his father was appointed Examiner for the Bureau of Pensions.

Everett Warner's work was selected for inclusion in some of the country's most prestigious art competitions, at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the National Academy of Design.

In 1903, with earnings from his painting sales, Everett Warner traveled to Europe, where he studied in Paris at the Academie Julian, while making sketching trips to Italy, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, and other countries.

Everett Warner considered a range of options, and even applied for the American Camouflage Corps.

In February 1918, Everett Warner accepted a commission as a lieutenant in the US Naval Reserves, and was assigned to manage a design-based subdivision of a newly formed American Camouflage Section.

Everett Warner became one of the first artists to sketch and paint from an aerial view.

Everett Warner extended his experiment by making large paintings from the small ones he had made in flight.

For 18 years, from 1924 to 1942, Everett Warner was an associate professor of painting and design at the College of Fine Arts at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Everett Longley Warner died of a heart attack on October 20,1963, at age 86.