PAUL THEODORE ARLT (AMERICAN 1914-2005 ) ORIGINAL ON BOARD
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Paul T. Arlt, a cartoonist for The New York Herald Tribune who also spent decades in Washington creating paintings of the powerful, died on Tuesday at his home in Rye, N.Y. He was 91.
The cause was congestive heart failure, said his daughter, Ronay Arlt Menschel.
Mr. Arlt was an editorial cartoonist for The Herald Tribune from 1951 to 1956, then worked for two trade publications. In 1965, he left to spend more time working in the nation's capital. For nearly 40 years, he captured elected officials and Congressional hearings and also depicted scenes of monuments, often in watercolor and oil paintings.
Mr. Arlt's work has been displayed across the country, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of the City of New York, the National Gallery of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago.
In 1940, he worked on a mural commissioned by the United States Treasury Department in Enterprise, Ala., as part of a federal program to support art during the New Deal. That painting is now displayed in the small town's public library. He was later commissioned by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to create paintings of the Gemini and Apollo space missions.
Paul Theodore Arlt was born in the Bronx and graduated from Townsend Harris High School and Colgate University. He served in the Marine Corps during World War II, working as a combat artist. He followed troops to the front lines in the Pacific to capture the action, and received a Purple Heart after being wounded by shrapnel while ducking into a foxhole.

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