Background
Reep, Edward Arnold was born on May 10, 1918 in Brooklyn. Son of Joseph and Elsie (Abramson) Reep.
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Many artists have fought in wars, and renowned painters have recorded heroic scenes of great battles, but those works were usually done long after the battles were waged. Artists have also been commissioned to visit, briefly, war-torn areas and make notes of the devastation and horror. Yet few artists who were members of any armed services have drawn or painted daily while they fought alongside their comrades. Edward Reep, as an official combat artist in World War II, painted and sketched while the battles of the Italian campaign raged around him. He was shelled, mortared, and strafed. At Monte Cassino, the earth trembled as he attempted to paint the historic bombing of that magnificent abbey. Later, racing into Milan with armed partisans on the fenders of his Jeep, he saw the bodies of Mussolini and his beautiful mistress cut down from the gas station where they had been hanged by their heels. That same day he witnessed at first hand the spectacle of a large German army force holed up in a high-rise office tower, waiting for the chance to surrender to the proper American brass for fear of falling into the hands of the vengeful partisans. Reep's recollections of such desperate days are made more memorable in Combat Artist by the many painfully vivid paintings and drawings that accompany the text. Reep's battlefield drawings show us, with unrelenting honesty, the horrors and griefs―and the bitter comedy―of that war fought to end wars that only spawned more.
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Reep, Edward Arnold was born on May 10, 1918 in Brooklyn. Son of Joseph and Elsie (Abramson) Reep.
Student, Art Center College Design, 1936-1941.
Instructor painting and drawing, Art Center College Design, Los Angeles, 1946-1950; instructor painting and drawing, Chouinard The Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles, 1950-1969; professor painting, department chairman, artist in residence, East Carolina U., 1970-1985; professor emeritus, East Carolina U., since 1985. Consultant editor Van Nostrand Reinhold Public Company. Official war artist-correspondent World War II, Africa and Italy.
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Member American Association of University Professors, National Watercolor Society (past president, Lifetime Achievement award 2002), Watercolor United States of America Honor Society (lifetime achievement gold medal 1997).
Married Karen Patricia Stevens, December 9, 1942. Children– Susan Kay, Cristine Elyse, Janine J., Mitchell Jules.