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Standish Backus
American naval officer and painter (1910–1989)
Standish Backus, Jr. (April 5, 1910 – October 12, 1989) was a United States military artist.[1]
Biography
Born in Detroit, he attended Princeton University, where he obtained in 1933 a degree in architecture.
He then spent a year at the University of Munich studying painting. After a brief period in Maine studying watercolor under Eliot O'Hara, he relocated to Santa Barbara, in 1935 and began working full-time as an artist. At the start of the Second World War he commissioned as an ensign in the Naval Reserve in 1940, and became an active-duty officer in 1941.
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He spent most of the war assigned to Net and Boom Defenses in the South Pacific.
He transferred to a special graphic presentation unit in 1945 and spent the last year of the Pacific theater as a combat artist. By the end of the war he had obtained the rank of commander.
He left active service in May 1946 and taught at the University of Calif