4. WWII | Tom Lea Institute

WORLD WAR II, 1942-1945

CORPORAL BUTLER, 8TH CAVALRY AND HIS MOUNT, 1941

Charcoal, 17¼ x 13½ Fort Bliss, Texas Collection of Carl Green & Linda Kirby, El Paso © Catherine Lea Weeks

PORTRAIT OF PVT. WYLIE POTTER

Oil on canvas, 22½ x 18½ LIFE Collection of Art WWII, U.S. Army Center of Military History, Fort Belvoir, Virginia

PORTRAIT OF SGT. R.H. HULSE, CREW CHIEF

Oil on canvas, 22 x 18 LIFE Collection of Art WWII, U.S. Army Center of Military History, Fort Belvoir, Virginia

A TIME AND A PLACE, ARGENTIA BAY, NEWFOUNDLAND, 1941

Oil on canvas, 25 x 40 LIFE Collection of Art WWII, U.S. Army Center of Military History, Fort Belvoir, Virginia

PORTRAIT OF FLYING CADET BILL KELLY

Oil on canvas, 22 x 18 Life Collection of Art WWII, U.S. Army Center of Military History, Fort Belvoir, Virginia

SGT. BRUCE BIEBER

Oil on canvas, 22 x 18 LIFE Collection of Art WWII, U.S. Army Center of Military History, Fort Belvoir, Virginia

COXSWAIN

Oil on canvas, 30 x 18 LIFE Collection of Art WWII, U.S. Army Center of Military History, Fort Belvoir, Virginia

PRELIMINARY SKETCH FOR DEATH OF WASP, 1942

Pencil on envelope, 11¾ x 13¾ Collection of James H. and Judy Clement, Dallas © Catherine Lea Weeks

DEATH OF THE WASP, original study

Made aboard the USS Hornet, 1942

DEATH OF THE WASP, final rendering, 1942

Oil on canvas, 22 x 40 LIFE Collection of Art WWII, U.S. Army Center of Military History, Fort Belvoir, Virginia

FIGHTER IN THE SKY

Oil on canvas, 14¼ x 23¼ LIFE Collection of Art WWII, U.S. Army Center of Military History, Fort Belvoir, Virginia

USS HORNET

Watercolor on paper, 10 x 14 LIFE Collection of Art WWII, U.S. Army Center of Military History, Fort Belvoir, Virginia

GENERAL QUARTERS – ALL HANDS MAN YOUR BATTLE STATIONS, 1942

Pencil on sketchpad paper, 13 3⁄4 x 11 3⁄4 Collection of the El Paso Museum of Art, sketchpad Gift of Ms. Ida L. Clement, Judy and James H. Clement, Jr., FMC Corporation, Mrs. Betty Ruth Wakefield Haley, Bill and Ann Kiely, Dr. Richard and Susan Sugden, and Mr. and Mrs. R. P Washburne © Catherine Lea Weeks

SUNDOWN ON PELELIU

Oil on canvas board, 27½ x 32½ LIFE Collection of Art WWII, U.S. Army Center of Military History, Fort Belvoir, Virginia

THE FIGHTING HORNET

Oil on canvas, 30½ x 21½ LIFE Collection of Art WWII, U.S. Army Center of Military History, Fort Belvoir, Virginia

THAT 2,000-YARD STARE, 1944

Oil on canvas, 36 x 28 LIFE Collection of Art WWII, U.S. Army Center of Military History, Fort Belvoir, Virginia

SKETCH OF RUFUS OAKEY, PELELIU, 1944

Pencil on sketchpad paper 13 3⁄4 x 11 3⁄4 Collection of the Tom Lea Institute, gift of Rufus Oakey, Jr. © Catherine Lea Weeks

THE PRICE, 1944

Oil on canvas, 36 x 28 LIFE Collection of Art WWII, US Army Center of Military History, Washington, DC