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Robert Benney
A native New Yorker, Benney began to paint full-time in 1936-37
while traveling in West Indies and South America. He left New
York soon after to live on Gaspe Peninsula in Canada. He did combat
paintings for the Abbott Naval Aviation collection in 1943 and
in 1944 witnessed the conquest of Saipan and other actions while
recording the work of the Army Medical Department for Abbott Collection.
His work is exhibited in many museums.
Kerr
Eby
Born 1889 in Japan, the son of a Methodist minister, Eby was brought
to Canada two years later. He studied at New York Art Students
League and Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. He made thumbnail battle
sketches of World War I that later served as basis for his famous
book WAR. Eby was appointed an Abbott war artist correspondent
in 1943, and sketched Marines in action through four months of
bitter fighting in the South Pacific theater.
Joseph
Hirsch
Born 1910 in Philadelphia, Hirsch studied art there, graduating
with two first prizes. His work is owned by leading museums and
he has won many awards painting for Abbott Laboratories. His work
includes the most widely reproduced War Bond poster of World War
II, Till We Meet Again and working as a war artist-correspondent
in 1943, Hirsch was sent first to the Pensacola Naval Air Station,
then to the Pacific theaters, and from there to the Italian front.
Carlos Lopez
Born 1908 in Havana, Cuba, Lopez lived in Cuba, South America,
Spain, Tampa, Chicago and Detroit, where he finally settled. He
studied at the Chicago Art Institute and Detroit Art Academy.
His works hang in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum
of American Art, Detroit Institute, and numerous private collections.
Lopez also executed murals for post offices and many other public
buildings.
Reginald Marsh
Born 1898 in Paris, France, of American parents, Marsh was graduated
from Yale University in 1920 and later studied with John Sloan.
He won the Kohnstamm Prize, Art Institute of Chicago in 1931 and
the Thomas Clarke Prize, National Academy of Design 1937. His
paintings are owned by leading American museums and his murals
are displayed in the Post Office Building, Washington, D.C., and
in the U.S. Customs House in New York City.
James Baare Turnbull
Born in St. Louis in 1909, Turnbll studied at the St. Louis School
of Fine Arts, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. As an Abbott
war artist-correspondent painted the activities of the U.S. Amphibious
Forces in the Philippine. His work is represented in the permanent
collections of the Whitney Museum, the Springfield Museum, University
of Arizona, the Phillips Memorial Gallery, the Louisiana Marine
Hospital and others.
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