Background
Jackson, Everett Gee was born on October 8, 1900 in Mexia, Texas, United States. Son of Warner Bros. and Fanny (Eubank) Jackson.
( Everett Gee Jackson's "Four Trips to Antiquity: Adventu...)
Everett Gee Jackson's "Four Trips to Antiquity: Adventures of an Artist in Maya Ruined Cities" is one part artist's memoir, one part exotic pulp escapade. The full color, hardcover book documents an artist's quest for the aesthetic root at the heart of ancient Maya sculpture. The book was initially commissioned by the Limited Editions Club (NYC) to illustrate the Popol Vuh, an ancient Quiche Maya manuscript. On this order, the intrepid artist journeyed to Copan, Honduras to seek out his treasure. We follow Jackson as his quest deepens, becoming ever more in tune with the meditative rhythms of an older civilization. Approaching the stone carvings with the eye of an artist, we see through Jackson's dazzling descriptions the significance of this art that had come to so fascinate him. The artist then returns to Copan in 1954; with no commissions on his docket, Jackson was able to focus exclusively on the object of his fascination: immersing himself primarily in the enduring stone monuments in the Great North Court of Copan-enchanting structures Jackson would visit twice more, once in 1962 and a final visit in 1978. Told with wit and perspicacity, the tale of these four trips deep into a land of antiquity challenges the reader to consider not only the artistic value of the great Mayan monoliths, but the powerfully moving story of an artist seeking deeper meaning in the immortality of ancient sculpture. Everett Gee Jackson grew up in the rural east Texas town of Mexia. He mastered the impressionist school of painting at the Art Institute of Chicago, graduating in 1923. That same year Jackson traveled to Mexico with fellow artist and friend Lowell Houser. After returning to the United States, Jackson settled in San Diego in the Art department at San Diego State College-one of his best-known works - Serra Museum Tower, San Diego - hangs in the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Jackson passed in 1995.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1879691043/?tag=2022091-20
Jackson, Everett Gee was born on October 8, 1900 in Mexia, Texas, United States. Son of Warner Bros. and Fanny (Eubank) Jackson.
Student, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College, 1919-1921; student, Art. Institute Chicago, 1921-1923; Bachelor of Arts, San Diego State College, 1929; A.M., University of Southern California, 1934.
Faculty Sul Ross State Teachers College, Alpine, Texas, 1929. Professor art San Diego State University, 1930-1963. Teacher University Costa Rica, 1962.
Painter, illustrator, 1926-1995. Advisory board to president San Diego State University.
( When artist Everett Jackson and his young wife, Eileen,...)
( Everett Gee Jackson's "Four Trips to Antiquity: Adventu...)
(Book by Jackson, Everett Gee)
Member American Association of University Professors, Fine Arts Society San Diego (trustee. Founding chairman Latin-American arts committee), San Diego Museum Art.
Married Eileen Dwyer, July 21, 1926. 1 child, Jerry Gee Jackson Williamson.