Raymond Everett (1885-1948), Old Mill, oil on board

Raymond Everett (1885-1948), Old Mill, oil on board, 15.75 x 19.5", frame: 21.75 x 25.75"

Raymond Everett is best known for his landscapes of Texas and street scenes. Aside from painting he was a graphic artists sculptor and teacher. Everett was born in New Jersey and attended the Drexel Institute of Technology Philadelphia where he studied under Howard Pyle. He graduated from Harvard University in 1909 after studying under Joseph Lindon Smith and Denman Waldo Ross. Everett received additional studies under Hermann Dudley Murphy. In 1909 Everett helped to organize the architecture department at Pennsylvania State College and in the following year joined the faculty at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor in the architecture department. During this time Everett spent time in Europe sketching architectural monuments followed by studies in Rome and at the Academie Julian Paris. In 1915 he began working at the University of Texas at Austin where he taught drawing and painting. Everett taught at the university until his death in 1948. He was buried in Austin Texas. Everett was a member of the Guild of Austin Artists; Pen and Brush Club Boston; Southern States Art League and the Texas Fine Arts Association. Exhibitions include Elisabet Ney Museum Austin; Annual Texas Artists Exhibition Fort Worth; Edgar B. Davis Competition San Antonio; Southern States Art League Annual Exhibition; Annual Texas Artists Circuit Exhibition; Guild of Austin Artists and the Annual Southeast Texas Artists Exhibition Houston Texas.
Condition Report: Good; surface rubbing at center right, approx. 2" long