Events

As the first embedded artist correspondent for LIFE Magazine during WWII, Tom Lea was intrigued by the theme of the Chinese Sung school of art, “Small Man in a Vast and Wondrous World.” One of his first paintings from China was illustrative of this theme: 60 Tex Hills Bunch Kweilin China, 1943. In this work, small airplanes fly above, and small people work under Kweilin, China’s vast mountains. Thomas Birkner, a UTEP professor of painting, will give soldiers a lesson on interpreting the theme while painting landscapes. Military personnel only.