Everett Gee Jackson was a watercolorist, illustrator, printmaker, and teacher. He was born in Mexia. He studied architecture at Texas A&M (1919-21) and at the art at the Art Institute of Chicago (1921-23). In 1923 he traveled to Mexico for an extended stay and opening a studio near Guadalajara. In 1928 he moved north to San Diego where he would remain.  He received his M.A. degree from USC and taught at San Diego State College from 1930 until retirement in 1963. He was to become an influential member of the art community and was a member and President of the San Diego Art Guild, and member of the Southern States Art League, Laguna Beach AA and others.  He was often to return to Mexico for inspiration and Mexican themes influenced by the works of both Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco were prominent in his art. However, Texas subjects also dominated his early works, i.e., "Bluebonnets of the Tehuancana Hills",  "Picking Cotton Toward Home", "Texas Wildflowers", "East Texas Negroes", and others.