Art and artists
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Leslie Thrasher, Illustrator, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3097
Overview
Correspondence, sketches, illustrations and papers of a magazine illustrator, Leslie Thrasher (1889-1936) originally from Piedmont, WV (on microfilm). Best known for the humor in his illustrations, his career started in 1912 after he had finished attending the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia and the Ecole de Grande Chaumiere in Paris. During World War I he was part of the camouflage regiment of the 40th. Engineers, U. S. Army, serving in France where he was wounded by...
Dates:
1912-1987