Edmond James Fitzgerald

Fitzgerald worked as an artist for the Civilian Conservation Corps - CCC - at the Salt Water State Park, Camp SP-11, Seattle, Washington.

Later on, he was a marine, landscape and portrait painter as well as combat artist during World War II. He graduated from the California School of Fine Arts where he was a student of Lee Randolph. At age nineteen, Fitzgerald was part of the U.S. Geological Survey Expedition to Alaska, and was so taken with the geography, he returned annually for the next ten years.

Fitzgerald served 26 years in the United States Naval Reserve. During World War II, he commanded an LST (landing craft) and had numerous subsequent combat and other naval activity art assignments.