Everett Warner grew up in Washington, D.C. and received his first art instruction at the Art Students League while still in high school. Upon graduation, he began a five-year stint as the art critic for the Washington Evening Star. Warner continued his studies in 1900 at the Art Students League in New York under George Bridgeman and in Paris at the Academy Julian. From 1903 until 1908, he traveled and painted in Europe and in the United States, exhibiting watercolors, pastels, etchings and oil paintings in competitive shows and receiving many awards. He joined the art colony of Old Lyme in 1909 and spent the next fifteen years as a part time resident. The tonalist concerns of Warner's earlier period gave way at this time to the bright, vibrant impressionism characteristic of the Old Lyme group. The work he painted there formed the basis of his reputation as a landscape artist.
After serving as a camouflage artist for the U.S. Navy during World War I, Warner returned to New York and directed his attention to urban scenes. Later in life, his reputation was as a painter of New York. On a 1923 sketching trip to Melrose, Florida, Warner fell in love with a young nurse whom he subsequently married. To support his new family, he took a teaching job at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh and painted realist views of the steel mills, the railroad and other industrial sites in his spare time. Recalled to the Navy at age sixty-five, he served as Chief Civilian Aide, Ship Camouflage until 1945 and then moved permanently to New Hampshire, where he continued to paint until his death in 1963.
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Biography courtesy of The Charleston Renaissance Gallery, www.antiquesandfineart.com/charleston
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