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Growing Up on the Border, 1907-1924

• Mexican Revolution

Early Career, 1924-1936

• Influence of John Warner Norton
• Europe in 1930
• Santa Fe

Back Home, 1936-1941

• Nancy died in 1936

• MURALS

• Texas Centennial
• Branigan Library
• Benjamin Franklin Post Office
• Federal Building, El Paso, Texas
• Post Office, Pleasant Hill, Missouri
• Post Office, Odessa, Texas

• IMPORTANT PEOPLE IN TOM LEA'S LIFE

• Sarah Dighton
• Carl Hertzog
• J. Frank Dobie
• Rosenwald Fellowship

World War II, 1941-1945

• Accredited War Artist-Correspondent
• North Atlantic
• Hornet
• China
• Peleliu Landing

• PORTRAITS

• Jimmy Doolittle
• Claire Chennault
• Berndt Balchen
• Madame and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek

The Writing Years, 1945-1974

• Sarah in the Summertime
• The Brave Bulls
• The Wonderful Country
• The Hands of Cantu
• A Picture Gallery
• Sunrise side of the mountain
• Crucible in the Sun
• Tom Lea, An Oral History

Studio Painter, 1974-2001

• Portrait Likenesses
• Southwest
• Ranger Escort West of the Pecos
• Cabeza de Vaca, 1935
• Rio Grande

Death in 2001

• Memorial Service