W.S. Hills Building - El Paso, Texas
Edificio W.S. Hills - El Paso, Tejas
W.S. Hills Building - El Paso, Texas
In 1936, Tom Lea had his studio in the second floor of this edifice formerly called W.S. Hills Building. In this handsome building of big windows northside, Lea built a scaffold and worked on government projects, including the murals in the Hall of State Building in Dallas and the "Pass of the North" at the Historic Federal Courthouse in El Paso. At his studio Tom Lea met for the first time publisher and book designer Carl Hertzog, Spanish sculptor Urbici Soler, and noted Texas writer J. Frank Dobie. Tom Lea said after remembering the day when Carl Hertzog knocked on his studio's door: "It was one of those meetings all of us are privileged to have a few times in our lives: we shake hands with a stranger and a few moments later we are talking to an old friend." - Tom Lea, A Picture Gallery, 1968.
Report this entry
More from the same community-collection
Cutting of the Ribbon at Digie Grand Opening
Digie" is the new Digital Information Gateway, or an interactive ...
Lisa Heinemann and friend at Opening Ceremony for DIGIE
Lisa and Silke at the Downtown Opening Ceremony for DIGIE on ...
Lisa at Opening Ceremony for DIGIE.
Lisa at the Downtown Opening Ceremony for DIGIE on February 14, ...
Heather and Carlos at Opening Ceremony for DIGIE
Heather and Carlos, friends of the Curator of the Digital Wall ...
Heather and Carlos at Opening Ceremony for DIGIE
Heather and Carlos, friends of the Curator of the Digital Wall ...
Heather and Carlos at Opening Ceremony for DIGIE
Heather and Carlos, friends of the Curator of the Digital Wall ...
Visitors at Opening Ceremony for DIGIE
Visitors at the Downtown Opening Ceremony on February 14, 2015, ...
Visitors at Opening Ceremony for DIGIE
Visitors at the Downtown Opening Ceremony on February 14, 2015, ...
Visitors at Opening Ceremony for DIGIE
Visitors at the Downtown Opening Ceremony on February 14, 2015, ...
Visitors at Opening Ceremony for DIGIE
Visitors at the Downtown Opening Ceremony on February 14, 2015, ...
Visitors at Opening Ceremony for DIGIE
Visitors at the Downtown Opening Ceremony on February 14, 2015, ...
Visitors at Opening Ceremony for DIGIE
Visitors at the Downtown Opening Ceremony on February 14, 2015, ...
Celebrating the Opening of the Digital Wall
A band playing at the celebration for the opening of the Digital ...
Bagwell's at Anson 11 before Chihuahuas game
James Bagwell and his twin sons, Bryan and Brandon, and his ...
Tom Lea, Sickbay in a Shellhole, 1944.
Sickbay in a Shellhole, 1944. Oil on canvas, 27 X 32. Life ...
