Leon Tebbetts: An Artist Who Chose to Be Forgotten

Eric Wimmer

Date of Award

2011

Document Type

Masters Research Paper

Degree Name

M.A.

Organizational Unit

School of Art and Art History, College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences

First Advisor

Annette Stott

Keywords

Mural painting and decoration, American, Massachusetts, Lynn, Painters, World War II 1939-1945, Art and war

Abstract

This paper will focus on Leon Tebbetts’ time in the United States Army Air Corps as an artist for Special Services. It will demonstrate how a combination of personal associations and psychological factors, including Hartley’s death, contributed to Tebbetts’ decision to abandon painting, with the result that this World War II muralist has been almost entirely forgotten.

Publication Statement

Copyright is held by the author. Permanently suppressed.

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