Ernest William Watson (January 14, 1884, Conway, Massachusetts – January 23, 1969, New Rochelle, New York) was an American painter, illustrator and writer.
Biography
He graduated from the Massachusetts Normal Art School 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.
In 1911, he married one of his students, Eva Auld. They had two sons, Lyn (Merlin) Auld Watson and painter Aldren Auld Watson (1917–2013). Watson married for a second time in New York City, in April 1949, to Eve Brian.
In 1915, Watson co-founded the Berkshire Summer School of Art in Monterey, Massachusetts, where he remained active in teaching summer sessions until 1927. 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.
Watson was awarded a Gari Melchers Memorial Medal from the Artist's Fellowship in 1960.
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.
Publications 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 Watson-Guptill publishers
References
External links
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 video of Watson demonstrating his sketching technique website dedicated to Watson