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1907 El Paso, Texas - 2001 El Paso, Texas. 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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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Keywords (57)
Art Method
- •Advertising Art
- •Easel Painting
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
- •Charcoal
- •Colored Pencil
- •Conte Crayon
- •Crayon, Crayola Drawing
- •Fresco Painting, Murals
- •Gouache
- •Ink
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Oil Paint
- •Pastel Painting/Drawing
- •Pen and Ink Drawing
- •Pencil, Graphite Drawing
- •Tempera
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Adobe Structures, Pueblos
- •American Scene
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Cowboys
- •Farm, Barn, Ranch Scene and/or Agricultural Genre
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
- •Landscape with Cattle, Sheep or Other Farm Animals
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •North American/Canadian Frontier, Pioneers
- •Snowscene, Winter Landscape
- •Western Art: Cowboys, Indians, Horses, Ranch Scenes
- •Wildlife, Wild Animal
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Asia, Orient
- •China
- •Hawaiian Islands and/or South Seas, Tahiti, Bali
- •New Mexico Before 1940
- •Texas Before 1940
Art School
- •School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
- •Bakkom Photo Collection, St. Paul, Minnesota (2)
- •C. R. Smith Collection-Western
- •US Capitol Building, Washington DC
Added Description
- •Combat, War Artist: Illustration, Painting or Photography
- •Commercial Art and Design
- •LIFE Magazine Featured Artist
- •LIFE Magazine Illustrator, Photographer
- •Mural Specialty
- •SATURDAY EVENING POST Illustrator and/or Photographer
- •Western Subject Specialty
- •WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •Southern States Art League Annual
- •Texas Centennial Exposition
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts