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The Blue Corral, 1979. Oil on Canvas, 26 X 34. Collection of Mr. and Mrs. I. T. Schwartz,

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Sep 17, 2026, 4:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Downtown Discoveries: A Self-Guided Scavenger Hunt
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Hotel Paso Del Norte, Autograph Collecti, 10 Henry Trost Ct, El Paso, TX 79901, USA
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Hotel Paso Del Norte, Autograph Collecti, 10 Henry Trost Ct, El Paso, TX 79901, USA
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Tom Lea considered his paintings a personal conversation between himself and his friends. In the case of these two paintings, his friends were native El Pasoans Irving T. Schwartz (Mickey) and his daughter, artist Susan Schwartz, whose upper valley home has displayed the paintings for over forty years.

Susan Schwartz shared that Tom and Sarah Lea would invite them over whenever Tom had a new painting he wanted them to see. It would be displayed inside the front door of their modest home, where they would see it upon entering, before sitting down for a drink and a visit.

“It has always seemed to me that I was fortunate in being born on the border in a town where two nations and two people meet, where more than on mode of life and one mode of thought are in constant confrontation to test and to broaden and to deepen one’s view of the world. ”-

Tom Lea, A Picture Gallery p. 137

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