Tags: Painter.
Ralph Burke Tyree (June 30 1921 – January 15 1979) was born in Irvine Kentucky and moved to Delhi California as an infant. He was awarded a scholarship to the California College of the Arts (Oakland) for a portrait he painted of his future wife Marguerite (Margo) Almeida and also studied at the San Francisco School of Fine Arts. From 1942 to 1946 he worked as an artist in the public relations department of the United States Marine Corps.