Sat, Feb 28
|UTEP Centennial Museum
HE KNEW THEM BY NAME: Tom Lea Portraits from WWII
🖼️ Join us as you listen to Adair Margo’s stories about Tom Lea’s time during WWII as an artist correspondent for Life Magazine. This presentation will amaze you like no other!
Time & Location
Feb 28, 2026, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
UTEP Centennial Museum, 500 W University Ave, El Paso, TX 79968
About the event
Recognized as a genius, El Paso native Tom Lea excelled as an illustrator, muralist, artist correspondent, novelist, historian, portraitist, and landscapist. Yet at the end of a long and productive life, he acknowledged his work as an accredited artist correspondent for Life Magazine during WWII as the most vivid and meaningful. This presentation by Lea's representative and friend, who recorded his oral history for Texas Western Press in 1995, shares the reasons why.