Born in Kent, Ohio in 1895, Garnet Jex moved as a child to Washington, D.C., where he would make his home until his death in 1979. He enlisted in the Army at the outbreak of World War I, the onset of  fifty years of public service. Upon his return from the war, Jex worked as a medical illustrator for the Army Medical Corps while ... MORE

Nell Choate Jones painted in a style that, while not abstract, eschews detail for form while emphasizing mass, movement, and contour. In picture after picture, it is the sway of a back, the bend in an elbow, or the carriage of a head held high that gives her figures character and charges them with life. Jones was born ... MORE