Everett Warner (1877-1963)
As the Sparks Fly Upward, 1940
Everett Longly Warner was born on July 16, 1877 in Vinton Iowa. He studied art at the Corcoran Art School in Washington D.C. from 1897-1898. In 1898 he moved to New York City and studied at the Art Students League for 2 years. In 1903 he traveled to Paris and studied at the Academie Julian.
Warner served in the Navy during World War I as a producer of camouflage for ships and was the originator of one of five systems of camouflage approved by the ship protection commission of the War Risk Bureau. He was promoted in 1918 to Lieutenant and was placed in charge of the Sub-Section of Design of U.S. Naval Camouflage. After serving in the War, Everett married and moved to Pittsburgh taking a teaching position at the Carnegie Technical Institute, where he would remain until his retirement in 1945. Pittsburgh inspired Warner and he produced many paintings of city and industrial life. Warner’s art career brought him many honors and awards. Warner died in 1963 at the age of 86.
His As the Sparks Fly Upward (1940) shows one of the mills along the river in the background volcanically belching flames, as the Bessemer furnaces shot bursts of fire into the sky. In the foreground is housing for factory workers. The wintry scene is bleak, and the mood conveyed is similar to that of Walter.
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