page_title: Theodore Wells Pietsch II
section_title: Hudson Motor Car Company and War Work: 1940–1944
hierarchical_section_title: Theodore Wells Pietsch II / Hudson Motor Car Company and War Work: 1940–1944
caption_attribution_description: English: The original drawing has been donated to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, but the image posted here was made by me, T. W. Pietsch III. Please see the correspondence below from Jennifer C. Riley, Head of Image Licensing and Digital Archives Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. You may tell them that while the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston owns the artwork; we do not retain the copyright to Theodore Wells Pietsch II’s images. Best, Jennifer Jennifer Riley Head of Image Licensing and Digital Archives Museum of Fine Arts, Boston jriley@mfa.org | 617-369-3777 http://www.mfa.org/collections/mfa-images Dear Mr. Pietsch, Regarding copyright, you retain copyright to any photos you took of the drawings made by your father. The copyright to the artworks and photographs does not revert to the Museum automatically upon donation of the works. The copyright to the photographs that you took stays with you so you have every right to upload those photos to Wikipedia. I am happy to provide you with language necessary for you to pass on to Wikipedia so you can reload the images. Since the Museum does not, in fact, hold the copyright to those photos, we cannot upload them. Best, Jennifer Jennifer Riley Head of Image Licensing and Digital Archives Museum of Fine Arts, Boston jriley@mfa.org | 617-369-3777 http://www.mfa.org/collections/mfa-images
context_page_description: Theodore Wells Pietsch II was an American automobile stylist and industrial designer who, with little formal education, managed to launch a career in automobile design that took him over a period of 38 years to nearly every major automobile company in the nation.
context_section_description: In 1940, Pietsch left Chrysler for the position of Senior Designer at the Hudson Motor Car Company, where he worked primarily at the drawing board making "quick-idea" sketches, color renderings in a variety of media (including catalog-quality air-brush work), accurate scale and full-size layouts, and rough sketching in three-dimensional clay models. At Hudson Motor he was also assigned to war work that consisted of making accurate perspective drawings of airplane assemblies and subassemblies from blueprints, and air-brush retouching of photographs (that were later used in an instruction manual prepared for the armed services) of mechanical parts of an anti-aircraft gun. It would be projects like this, but in particular the years spent interpreting the blueprints for the B-29, that protected him against the draft and provided military deferment throughout the war.
caption: Chrysler two-door convertible, by T. W. Pietsch, 25 January 1941
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