Granted Application for Lea Tom

Title: Granted Application for Lea Tom
Description: A 1941 application file for Tom Lea, a free-lance artist from El Paso, Texas. He was granted $1,800 to produce twenty canvases depicting the land, men, and animals of the Southwest. Notes indicate he was later commissioned by LIFE magazine as a war artist and correspondent.
Identifier: fisk_rf_ff_fge_378_3_00001
Demographic: White Southerner
Subject: Julius Rosenwald Fund, 20th Century—History, African American history, Lea, Thomas Calloway, 1907-2001,
Extent: 4 pages
Language: eng
Date: 1941
Format: pdf
Type: Text
Source: Box 378, Julius Rosenwald Fund Archives, 1917-1948, John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library.
Publisher: John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library.
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