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Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Gilbert Weimer Pursell
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.

Gilbert Weimer Pursell

American, 1906 - 1974
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Place of BirthDyer, Tennessee
Place of DeathPound Ridge, New York
Tennessee native Weimer Pursell studied at the Chicago Art Institute and worked as an illustrator for "Esquire," "Life," "Forbes," and other magazines. Pursell also created posters for corporate clients, including Standard Oil and Coca-Cola. After the war he chaired the Department of Art at the University of Tennessee.