Background
Draper, Josiah Everett was born on October 17, 1915 in East Orange, New Jersey, United States. Son of Harold Walcott and Anna Frederika (Petersen) Draper.
Draper, Josiah Everett was born on October 17, 1915 in East Orange, New Jersey, United States. Son of Harold Walcott and Anna Frederika (Petersen) Draper.
Graduate in Advertising Design, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. Student Illustration (Harvey Dunn), Grand Central School of Art, New York City.
Art director, Prudential Insurance Company, Newark and Jacksonville, New Jersey, Florida, 1935-1972; president, J.E. Draper American Welding Society, Inc., Ponte Vedra, Florida, since 1972. Adjunct instructor art and design Newark School Fine and Industrial Att, 1947-1951. Instructor water color workshotps internationally, since 1972.
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President St. Augustine (Florida) Art Association, 1973-1976. Master sergeant United States Army Intelligence, 1941-1945. Member American Watercolor Society (Carolyn Stern award 1967), Florida Watercolor Society (past president), Salmagundi Club, Ponte Vedra Club, Whiskey Painters of America.
Married Evelyn Ruth Wehlau, September 25, 1943. Children: Pamela Ruth Draper Whyte, Richard Everett.