Garnet Jex, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetGarnet Jex
American artist
Date of Birth: 19-Oct-1895
Date of Death: 21-Sep-1979
Profession: painter
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Garnet Jex
- Garnet W.
- Jex (October 19, 1895 – September 21, 1979) was an American artist and historian.
- Born in Kent, Ohio, he moved with his family to Washington, D.C., at the age of four.
- He remained in the Washington area until his death. Jex enlisted in the U.S.
- Army in World War I.
- After the war, he worked as a medical illustrator for the Army Medical Corps for two years and attended the Corcoran College of Art and Design.
- He earned a BA in 1927 and a Master's degree in 1931, both from George Washington University.
- While completing his master's degree, he worked as an art editor for the journal Nature.
- Later, Jex was employed as an artist and designer at the United States Public Health Service for 26 years, until his retirement in 1962.In 1965, Jex authored a watercolor history book of the American Civil War entitled The Upper Potomac in the Civil War : a series of 51 water color paintings. Jex was highly renowned for his landscape paintings of the Potomac River and the C & O Canal.
- Although a flood destroyed the canal in 1925, Jex's works remain as a visual record of the once commercially important structure.
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