Everett Jeffrey (1906-?) -- student

A native of Oxford Mills, Iowa [b.1906], Everett Jeffrey was a self-taught painter and sculptor who achieved regional acclaim due to the Little Gallery of Cedar Rapids. The gallery's director, Edward Rowan, promoted Jeffrey's work in local, one-man shows (1932) and at the Iowa Art Salon (1931,1933). Jeffrey attended the Stone City art colony, and in the fall of 1932, joined Robert Francis White and other artists to create the Cooperative Mural Painters Group of Cedar Rapids. This collective later produced the Cedar Rapids federal courthouse murals series (1936); the installation was destroyed under court orders years later. After 1939, the artist's life story is undetermined.