Ernest William Watson
Ernest William Watson (January 14, 1884, Conway, Massachusetts – January 23, 1969, New Rochelle, New York) was an American painter, illustrator and writer.
Biography
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He graduated from the Massachusetts Normal School of Art in Boston in 1906, and received his teacher-education degree the following year from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, where he later taught, in 1907.[1]
In 1911, he married one of his students, Eva Auld.[2] They had two sons, Lyn (Merlin) Auld Watson and painter Aldren Auld Watson (1917–2013).[3][4] Watson married for a second time in New York City, in April 1949, to Eve Brian.[5]
In 1915, Watson co-founded the Berkshire Summer School of Art in Monterey, Massachusetts, where he remained active in teaching summer sessions until 1927.[6] He was a member of the Prairie Print Makers, the Rochester Print Club, the National Sculpture Society, the Society of Illustrators, and the Salmagundi Club. He was also editor of American Artist and Scholastic Magazine.[7][1]
Watson was awarded a Gari Melchers Memorial Medal from the Artist's Fellowship in 1960.[8][9]
His work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Brooklyn Museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, La Salle University Art Museum, the Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Library of Congress, the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Wichita Art Museum.[7]
Publications
[edit]- Art of Pencil Drawing
- Composition in Landscape and Still Life
- Creative Perspective for Artists and Illustrators
- Linoleum Block Printing
- Color and Method in Painting
- Ernest W. Watson's Sketch Diary
- The Watson Drawing Book
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "1939 ~ Ernest Watson 'Tide Out, St. Ives'". Print Club of Rochester. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
- ^ "Eva Auld Watson". The Annex Galleries. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
- ^ "Aldren A. Watson Biography". AldrenWatson.com. Retrieved January 4, 2019.
- ^ "Paid Notice: Deaths Watson, Aldren Auld". The New York Times. Retrieved January 6, 2019.
- ^ "Ernest W. Watson". ErnestWWatson.com. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
- ^ "Berkshire Summer School of Art". ErnestWWatson.com. Retrieved March 14, 2025.
- ^ a b "Ernest William Watson". The Annex Galleries. Retrieved March 14, 2025.
- ^ "The Gari Melchers Memorial Medal". Artists Fellowship. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
- ^ "Gari Melchers (1860–1932) Gold Medal". Salmagundi Club. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
External links
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- Images of Watson’s works held in the Smithsonian Museum
- Collection information, Ernest William Watson papers, 1949–1965
- Digital copies of works by Watson held by the Internet Archive
- http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2021/07/video-of-ernest-watson.html
- https://ernestwwatson.com/
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