Painter, sculptor, muralist, teacher and author, Austin Deuel, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1939. He served in the US Marine Corps twice; from 1959-1965 and rejoined in 1967 to serve in the Vietnam combat art program. He was a Marine combat artist; later he was commissioned to do the San Antonio's Vietnam Veterans Memorial, which was dedicated Nov. 9, 1986, two days before Veterans Day. The memorial, titled Hill 881 South, depicts a radio operator comforting a wounded comrade while anxiously searching the sky for a medivac helicopter. The bronze sculpture stands about 10 feet tall at its highest point and is 23 feet long and 12 feet wide. With a weight of more than 10 tons, it is the largest sculpture of its kind in the country. Deuel taught art at the junior college level, ran an art gallery, wrote a San Diego newspaper column on artifacts, traveled abroad, collects Old Master works and contemporary art. He is a sculptor, painter, and muralist; as well he has published the gamut of reproductions from lithographs to greeting cards to calendars and plates, winning many awards in the process since the early 1960's. Austin Deuel is a member of the American Indian and Cowboy Artists Association. He is also an author, and his paintings hang in the US Marine Corps Museum in Washington, D.C. and in many other collections, such as the Maddox Library at Trinity University, where many bronze sculptures of his are on display as well. Austin Deuel, age 82, of Phoenix, Arizona passed away on Friday, December 17, 2021.