Item: Juanita Gilbert, illustrator for CONVAIR (Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation)
APA
Montfort, Sawtelle, and Gilbert Families Papers, University of Texas at Arlington Libraries. Juanita Gilbert, illustrator for CONVAIR (Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation). (1943). Retrieved from https://library.uta.edu/digitalgallery/img/10007594Chicago/Turabian
Montfort, Sawtelle, and Gilbert Families Papers, University of Texas at Arlington Libraries. "Juanita Gilbert, illustrator for CONVAIR (Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation)." UTA Libraries Digital Gallery. 1943. AccessedMay 8, 2024
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Montfort, Sawtelle, and Gilbert Families Papers, University of Texas at Arlington Libraries. Juanita Gilbert, illustrator for CONVAIR (Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation). 1943. UTA Libraries Digital Gallery, https://library.uta.edu/digitalgallery/img/10007594. Accessed8 May 2024
Special Collections Reference Information
Original image part of the Montfort, Sawtelle, and Gilbert Families Papers, University of Texas at Arlington Libraries. Identifier: 2012-13 Box 3
Identifier: 10007594
Title: Juanita Gilbert, illustrator for CONVAIR (Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation)
Description: Juanita Gilbert, illustrator for CONVAIR (Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation), ca. 1943. Juanita Montgomery (1913-1997) studied as a child under Fort Worth art teachers Carrie Greathouse; Sallie Blyth Mummert -- her primary mentor from 1926 to 1938; and Sallie Gillespie. After graduating from Central High School in 1931, Juanita enrolled at North Texas Agricultural College (now UT Arlington), and later transferred to Texas Christian University where she studied public school art preparing to become a teacher. Caught in the Depression, Juanita turned to antique restoration, designing downtown store windows, and illustrating fine books and manuscripts for Kennedale rare book dealer Philotheleos K. Ferney. She was accepted as a student member of the Fort Worth Artists’ Guild and exhibited in its juried and non-juried shows in 1938 and 1939. Her professional art career was launched as the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft (Convair) bomber plant opened in Fort Worth in 1942 where she became a technical illustrator working alongside other Fort Worth artists including Dickson Reeder and Kelly Fearing, preparing detailed equipment drawings for B-24 Liberator bomber and C-87 Liberator transport aircraft. In 1943, this photo of Juanita was featured in Harper's Bazaar as an example of an American woman contributing to the war effort. She married Porter Gilbert in 1943; left Consolidated briefly after the war; but returned in 1947, remaining with the company another nineteen years. Throughout her adult life, Juanita Gilbert continued to work as an artist, concentrating in watercolors and oils.
Date Created: 1943 (Approximately)
Coverage: 1940s
Category: Business and Industry, Daily Life
Subject Term: Gilbert, Juanita, Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation, Convair, Convair employees, Illustrators, Technical Illustrators, Women Illustrators, War Efforts, Drawings
Collection: Montfort, Sawtelle, and Gilbert Families Papers
Type: Still Image
Format: JPG
Publisher: University of Texas at Arlington Libraries
Rights Holder: University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections
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Title: Juanita Gilbert, illustrator for CONVAIR (Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation)
Description: Juanita Gilbert, illustrator for CONVAIR (Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation), ca. 1943. Juanita Montgomery (1913-1997) studied as a child under Fort Worth art teachers Carrie Greathouse; Sallie Blyth Mummert -- her primary mentor from 1926 to 1938; and Sallie Gillespie. After graduating from Central High School in 1931, Juanita enrolled at North Texas Agricultural College (now UT Arlington), and later transferred to Texas Christian University where she studied public school art preparing to become a teacher. Caught in the Depression, Juanita turned to antique restoration, designing downtown store windows, and illustrating fine books and manuscripts for Kennedale rare book dealer Philotheleos K. Ferney. She was accepted as a student member of the Fort Worth Artists’ Guild and exhibited in its juried and non-juried shows in 1938 and 1939. Her professional art career was launched as the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft (Convair) bomber plant opened in Fort Worth in 1942 where she became a technical illustrator working alongside other Fort Worth artists including Dickson Reeder and Kelly Fearing, preparing detailed equipment drawings for B-24 Liberator bomber and C-87 Liberator transport aircraft. In 1943, this photo of Juanita was featured in Harper's Bazaar as an example of an American woman contributing to the war effort. She married Porter Gilbert in 1943; left Consolidated briefly after the war; but returned in 1947, remaining with the company another nineteen years. Throughout her adult life, Juanita Gilbert continued to work as an artist, concentrating in watercolors and oils.
Date Created: 1943 (Approximately)
Coverage: 1940s
Category: Business and Industry, Daily Life
Subject Term: Gilbert, Juanita, Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation, Convair, Convair employees, Illustrators, Technical Illustrators, Women Illustrators, War Efforts, Drawings
Collection: Montfort, Sawtelle, and Gilbert Families Papers
Type: Still Image
Format: JPG
Publisher: University of Texas at Arlington Libraries
Rights Holder: University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections
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