Background
Watson, Ernest William was born on January 14, 1884 in Conway, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Daniel and Lucinda (Moody) Watson.
Watson, Ernest William was born on January 14, 1884 in Conway, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Daniel and Lucinda (Moody) Watson.
Graduate Monson (Massachusetts) Academy, 1901, Massachusetts Normal Art School, Boston, Massachusetts, 1906, Pratt Institute Art School, 1907. Travel and study in England and Europe, 1926, Mexico, 1936.
; children—Lyn A. Aldren A. Married second, Eve Brian, April 9, 1949. Teacher of drawing and design at the Pratt Institute Art School, 1908-1929, supervisor day and evening classes, 1919-1929.
Company-founder (with Raymond P. Ensign), The Berkshire Summer School of Art, Monterey, Massachusetts, 1915, withdrew from school, 1927. Art editor Scholastic magazine, New York, New York, 1931-1937.
Founder (with Ralph Reinhold, president, and Arthur L. Guptill, vice president), Watson-Guptill Publications, Incorporated, New York York, New York, 1937, vice president, 1937-1955.
Editor-in-chief American Artist, 1937-1955, emeritus, 1955-1969. Artist advertising illustrations in pencil since 1913, color woodcuts since 1920. Republican in collections Smithsonian Institute, Library of Congress, New York Public library, Brooklyn Museum, Baltimore Museum Art, Albert H. Wiggin Print Collection, Boston Public Library, National Collection Fine Arts, Washington.
Member Society Illustrators, National Sculptors Society.
Married Eva M. Auld, June 21, 1911 (deceased. Married second, Eve Brian, April 9, 1949. Children: Lyn A. Aldren A.