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    EYES WIDE OPEN

    Mar 31, 2020 2 minutes
    By Paul R. Huard

    It’s been said that if you look into an infantryman’s eyes you can tell how much war he has seen. Gaze into the eyes of the warriors portrayed by World War II combat artist Tom Lea and you know that his subjects have seen hell.

    Thomas Calloway Lea III (1907-2001) covered the war for magazine, a knew Lea’s paintings captured something the camera lens could miss: his affinity for the men he covered, combined with a relentless pursuit of accuracy.

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