A professional artist prior to his arrival at Duke University as a conscientious worker during Word War II, Blake spent only three months in the operating room before his talent was utilized as a medical artist in the illustration department of...
(Left to right) Elon H. Clark, Willard Sheppard, Susan Wilks, Tom Jones, and Orville A. Parks. The Medical Art and Illustration Division of Duke University School of Medicine was started in 1933 by Deryl Hart, Elizabeth Brodel, and C.W. Richardson.
Elon H. Clark (left) and Tom Jones during Jones' visit to Duke University. Elon Clark said that Tom Jones was "a world famous medical artist, second only to Max Brodel." In the background is a model of an infant's head and Clark's drawing of...
Carlin Graham at work. Graham was a professional photographer for Duke's Medical Art and Illustration division. In 1950 Graham left Duke to head the medical illustration program at Tuskegee University.