Philip Jamison
American watercolorist, 1925–2021
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American painter, 1826–1900
American illustrator, 1869–1940
Philip Jamison
BiographyBorn in Philadelphia, Jamison studied at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art (now the University of the Arts). A respected watercolor painter, he was known for depicting landscapes around West Chester, other Chester County locales, and his summer home in Vinalhaven, Maine. Jamison exhibited regionally at the Pennsylvania Academy, the Philadelphia Water Color Club, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Woodmere Art Museum, and the Delaware Art Museum, as well as nationally at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the and Hirschl & Adler Galleries in New York. Jamison was influenced by the “Brandywine” style of illustration that was popularized and taught by artist Howard Pyle and others.
