Ernest W Watson Artwork

Ernest W. Watson

Artwork

Ernest W. Watson's artwork is made up mainly of linoleum block prints and pencil drawings. Though they are by no means a complete catalog of his work, the prints and drawings on this page do show a good representation of it, and will be periodically updated when possible.

Linoleum Block Prints

By 1920, together with his first wife, Eva Auld Watson, also a gifted and accomplished artist, Ernest developed new techniques of color printmaking and organized traveling exhibitions for the display of their prints. His work was aquired by the Smithsonian Institution and the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.. the New York Public Library, New York City, Brooklyn Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Albert H. Wiggin Print Collection of the Boston Public Library.

Ernest W. Watson and his wife Eva were the first of three generations of professional visual artists, including their son Aldren Auld Watson, and their grandchildren, Thomas A.D. Watson, Wendy Watson, and N. Cameron Watson. Please visit the links page for more information.

Pencil Drawings

Starting in 1913, the Joseph Dixon Crucible Company (now the Dixon Ticonderoga Company), at the time a leading manufacturer of a popular brand of artists' pencils, commissioned Watson to execute monthly a full-page pencil drawing to advertise the merits of the company's product. In addition to the drawings, Watson was authorized to choose the subject of the drawing, and he usually wrote the brief informative texts for the advertisements, which appeared regularly in Pencil Points (later Progressive Architecture), School Arts, and other magazines. The commission, which lasted for twelve years, took him to Europe, England, Mexico, and sections of the United States and provided the opportunity for him to develop the creative pencil technique, Broadstroke, for which he became known.

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