Vic Donahue (b.1913)
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Vic Donahue was raised in Omaha and became a newspaper artist there and in Chicago. He sketched and painted the Marines in the Pacific, becoming one of the first official combat artists. Following the war, he joined the Scripps-Howard newspaper syndicate in Cleveland, Ohio as a feature artist and was nominated two times for the Pulitzer Prize for Best Newspaper Feature of the Year. He moved to New York City where he was a book, magazine and adverting illustrator before he turned to fine-art painting. In 1962, he and his wife and two sons moved to Tucson, Arizona, where they have remained.
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