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Tom Lea

Tom Lea (1907 - 2001) was active/lived in Texas.  Tom Lea is known for Illustration, cattle ranching scene painting, mural.

Born and raised in El Paso, Texas, Tom Lea was a painter, illustrator, muralist, teacher, writer and commercial artist.  Many of his paintings depicted scenes from Texas, although his career ranged beyond his home state.

During his youth, he spent many summers working on ranches in both Texas and New Mexico. At age seventeen he enrolled in the Art Institute of Chicago, and from 1926 to 1933, worked there as a mural assistant to John Warner Norton, a noted muralist.  From this job, he earned money to travel and study in Italy for a year.  Returning, he moved to Santa Fe, and from 1933 to 1935 he worked part time on the staff of the Laboratory of Anthropology.

In 1936, his first wife died, and Lea returned to El Paso, where he opened a studio and worked as an illustrator and WPA library and post- office muralist.  He also completed Saturday Evening Post and Life magazine illustrations.  During World War II, Life [Displaying 1000 of 4827 characters.]  Artist bio

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