Background
Whiting, John Downes was born on July 20, 1884 in Ridgefield, Connecticut, United States. Son of William Wallace and Catherine Jane (Downes) Whiting.
Whiting, John Downes was born on July 20, 1884 in Ridgefield, Connecticut, United States. Son of William Wallace and Catherine Jane (Downes) Whiting.
Graduated from Yale School of Fine Arts, 1910, Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1915. Studied under Clifton South. Carbee, of Boston, and Lucius West. Hitchcock, New Rochelle, New New York
Actively engaged as illustrator sea stories, books on out-door life, et cetera, since 1911. Has made illustrations for Metropolitan Magazine, Robert McBride & Company, East. P. Dutton & Company, General Рractitioner Putnam’s Sons, Doubleday, Page & Company, Houghton Mifflin Company, Harper Brothers, et cetera
Member Company F. 2d Regiment Connecticut National Guard, 1917-1918. Member Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, Rockport (Massachusetts) Art Association. Clubs: Paint and Clay (president 1938), New Haven, Chess (New Haven).
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Member World Federalists of Connecticut, 1946.
Married Meredyth Gooch, May 10, 1913. Children: Katherine Wyman, Elizabeth Coolidge.