Garnet Wolesey Jex

Garnet W. Jex (1895-1979) was a painter, particularly a landscapist and portraitist. Born in Ohio, he grew up and was educated in Washington, DC and studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Corcoran School of Art. Mr. Jex also photographed Washington as it was changing in the mid-twentieth century. The Garnet W. Jex Southwest Collection, 1958-1964, consists of 288 35mm color slides of scenes of Washington’s Southwest as it was being demolished for redevelopment.

Farmers market, September, 1958	Demolition of row houses on G Street, SW, in the 400 block, 1958
Street scene on 4th Street, SW, shortly before demolition, September, 1958	Row houses on the south side of the 300 block of School Street, SW, shortly before demolition, 1958
Demolition of buildings on the northwest corner of 11th Street and Virginia Avenue, SW, February, 1959	View northwest over Harbour Square cooperative apartments construction site, November, 1963