LITERARY LAS VEGAS

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Henderson resident Howard B. Capponi and his wife, Renee, teamed up to author "James Milton Sessions: American World War II Artist and Premier Brush Reporter."

The book features 28 of Sessions' World War II paintings, works that chronicle events and major battles of the war as painted by a U.S. Marine Corps artist on the front lines.

According to the authors, all of the paintings in the book were either sketched or painted on location or re-created from classified military film footage secured from the U.S. War Department. For the battles he didn't personally see, Sessions didn't just watch films, he interviewed the people who were there -- news corespondents and members of the armed forces. Howard Capponi, an art appraiser and consultant, curated two exhibitions of Sessions' work for a gallery in Chicago. Visit www.jamesmsessions.com.