A patron has contacted me hoping to find a home for a painting of his
uncle, an AP reporter killed in WWII. The painting hung in the Pentagon a
number of years ago and has since been returned to the family. The painting
is a portrait of George Bede Irvin by Francis Kughler (?) (see info below).
It is currently located in the greater Los Angeles area but he is open to
going to any museum in the country who might be interested.

Please contact me off-list if your institution is interested and I’ll pass
along contact information.

Thanks,
Michelle

Michelle Gallagher, Collections Manager
Palm Springs Desert Museum
760-325-7186 ext. 122
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George Bede Irvin
Newsman George Bede Irvin was killed July 25, 1944, after photographing an
aerial bombardment north of St. Lo, France, during a barrage that signalled
the start of the Allied drive out of Normandy during World War II. He was
33.
An Allied bomb which fell short of its mark caught Irvin as he dived for a
roadside ditch from the jeep he had been sitting in. He had apparently
tried to grab his camera before escaping the jeep and was hit by a bomb
fragment.
A native of Des Moines, Iowa, Irvin attended the University of Iowa and
Drake University before going to work as a photographer for the Des Moines
Register and Tribune.
Irvin joined the AP in Kansas City in 1936 and soon after transferred to
Detroit.
He went to London in 1943 on the eve of the Normandy invasion, the first
American photographer assigned to cover the war in Europe for the AP. He
was assigned to the Ninth Air Force in France in 1944.
Irvin was buried with military honors at a U.S. Military Cemetery near La
Cambe, France, on July 27, his 34th birthday.

(Courtesy of the Associated Press.)

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