Garnet Jex

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Garnet Jex (1895 – 1979) was an American painter. 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 and attended the Corcoran College of Art and Design. He earned his B.A. in 1927 and his 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. After university, Jex was employed by the U.S. Government until 1962, when he retired.

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.