Lee Jamison Art and Illustrations
Fine art, Murals, and Illustrations by Lee Jamison

The Old Jail Arts Center in Albany, Texas is hosting the Art of Texas State Parks show. If you're in the region around Abilene get over there to see this treasure of the lands of Texas as seen through the eyes of her artists.

The work I have done lifting up the life and career of Sam Houston has probably been seen by more people than anything except, perhaps, the murals at The Driskill Hotel. It has been an amazing privilege to have participated in this story.
In the spring of 1863, shortly before he died, a group of Alabama and Coushatta Indians visited Sam at his Huntsville home.
A number of their braves had been swept into Confederate service and he used what little influence he had to get them released. It was not their fight or their war and a delegation from the tribe had come to thank him for his help.
Jeff Hamilton witnessed the event and wrote about it: “They sat around him in a circle on the big porch and talked for a long time in the Indian language. Then my Master asked them to sing his favorite Indian song, the one he liked so well, which was sung in a low chant. It was a pretty song, but sad.”
Fond Farewell, a painting by Texas artist Lee Jamison, depicts the event and appears in the documentary film, Sam Houston.
18” x 24” oil on canvas.
Sam Houston Memorial Museum and Republic of Texas Presidential Library, Huntsville.

Not fully satisfied with this image. Will tweak the sky some more.

It's been a frantically busy January, but not much of that busyness has been painting. Here, for McCollum Custom Homes, is work #1 of 2024.

Sam Houston State University's LEAP Ambassadors visit the Art of Texas State Parks exhibit at the Panhandle Plains Museum in Canyon, Texas. Then they took the time to snap this image of Grave of Hubris!

Basically finished. I really like the way the light works in this painting. Streaks of sunshine on the surface of calm water are hard.

Slow but steady wins the painting. . .
Tomorrow I'll work on water.

The Guadalupe commission is shaping up!
This fall has been so hectic it's been really hard to put more than a couple of hours at a time into painting. Yesterday I was able to do almost a day's worth of work.
It is a privilege to be a creator.

Progress on the Guadalupe painting. . .

In the works: A Guadalupe River commission, near Hunt.

Back from the long drive to the opening of The Art of Texas State Parks show at the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum at Canyon, Texas.
This is an appropriate location for this show, as the street running to the front door of the museum goes right to Palo Duro Canyon State Park, the second largest canyon in North America and one of Texas' most spectacular state parks.
While I took photos of the show itself, I naturally didn't think to take any of the reception or the people. Principle authors of the book, Andrew Sansom and Linda Reaves could not be present because of corporate board responsibilities and a death in the family, but several of us artists made the long drive, including Jeri Salter, whose Palo Duro and Cap Rock State Park pastels were highlighted in the front of the show (on red backgrounds). Others present were Fidencio Duran, Hailey Herrera, Billy Hassell, Malou Flato, and probably others I'm forgetting.
Saturday morning I spent a chilly, cloudy daybreak sketching and photographing Palo Duro. It is light years from my usual focus on East Texas, I'll tell you!

A little before and after from yesterday at Fratelli's. I'll be working to complete these this morning and move on to other images for the afternoon.

I love to experiment with colorful abstractions suggesting landscape. Here is a palette knife work in acrylic from 2016.

The pressure of the performance-art aspect of mural painting can be so tiring that I often forget, at the end of a day, to take pictures of the day's progress. So I don't have the end of day two, yet. But this was the end of day one at Fratelli's Restaurant in Houston.

I'm headed to Fratelli's, on Wirt and Westfield in Houston, to add characters to the mural!

One of the things about which I am proudest of my work in recent years was highlighted in the comments of visitors to the current showing of Ode to East Texas at the Pearl Fincher Museum in Spring. After Dr. Carolina Crimm and I had made out remarks a woman came up to discuss a painting she had seen at the Houston Museum of Natural Science- my painting of Martin Dies, Jr. State Park in the traveling show celebrating the centennial of the Texas State Parks system.
Among Texas' state parks, Marin Dies, Jr. is a hidden gem, little known and long underutilized. When I visited to collect information for the paintings in the book, The Art of Texas State Parks, by Andrew Sansom and Linda Reaves, maintenance of portions of the original development of the park had even been discontinued. Since the shows began at the release of the book no single painting of mine has received more comment, not only from the public, as happened yesterday, but also from numerous state park officials and employees. And that's what my evangelism for East Texas has been about- raising the awareness of Texans for the treasures she has, hidden in plain sight where we too seldom look for treasures.

I've been working and working, trying to refine this image to what I was thinking when I started it. Yesterday I put the last touches on it.

Saturday, the 7th at 2:00 P.M. Dr. Caroline Crimm and I will talk about the history of East Texas and what a beautiful subject it is for the art world of Texas at the Ode to East Texas Houston stop at the Pearl Fincher Museum.
Photos from the Member Opening on September 23rd courtesy of Pearl Fincher Museum.
https://www.pearlmfa.org/contact--visit.html

It's been years since I posted anything on the mural I painted at Scott Johnson Elementary School twenty-eight years ago. But it is still there, and occasionally one of the students I painted into it will stop me and reminisce about their experience. Barbara Skeeters, then principal of the school, told me years afterwards that all of the students we placed in the mural, all of whom we intentionally chose because they were having troubles in classes, passed their grades. Many, if not most of them, would have been expected to fail. And the grade average of the whole school also increased. for the year.
There was a great story to tell here about the greatness of a man who led and served without star treatment.

Interesting type of cloud I've never seen in person.
These are scud clouds captured in South Carolina!
SCUD clouds may look like funnel clouds, but they actually form much differently. They form in areas of increased relative humidity as air rises in a thunderstorm. The term SCUD is actually an acronym standing for “Scattered Cumulus Under Deck”.
While they look ominous, SCUD clouds are harmless and do not produce severe weather.
📸 Zachary Lane

I've known Bill and Linda Reaves for a long time, having first met them when I was represented by Connally and Altermann Galleries on West Alabama in Houston. No one has done more than these two to promote my work. They have been the catalysts of Ode to East Texas and the seven museum stops the book tour has made. Yesterday evening we gathered to introduce their gift collection to the University of Houston- Victoria campus which included three of my works. It was my honor that the catalog cover, designed by University of Houston- Victoria staff, featured my painting of the Edna Theater.
Tomorrow evening we will gather again, this time at the Stark Galleries on the campus of Texas A&M University in College Station, to open an exhibit of the works of E.M. "Buck" Schiwetz on the occasion of the publication of a scholarly book through Texas A&M Press. I had the great privilege of doing the majority of the photography in this book- and through that connecting with one of my personal heroes of Texas art.

A before-and-after of another repair for water damage at the East Grandstand Stadium Suite murals at the University of Texas from last week.
This one was necessitated by the failure of a valve in the water-chilling system on the roof. Age is not just catching up with me. . .

The last scheduled stop for the Ode to East Texas tour through the state will be the Pearl Fincher museum in Spring, next door to the Barbara Bush branch library. An opening event is planned for members of the museum on September 23rd.
Given the travel schedule, this work, "Moving Shadows" seemed like an appropriate representative of the collection. . .

At 4:00 p.m. this evening at the Texas Capitol Visitor's Center I will speak on the subject of "Becoming Texas" and will then have a book signing for Ode to East Texas books.
Come find out more about how Texas owes so much East Texas for what it has become.

Here's another very early work, this time from 1982. It actually precedes my being a full-time artist. At the time I was learning I was a terrible car salesman and was getting up very early in the mornings to paint. As an oil industry brat, I had easy access on weekends to wells being drilled on my dad's geophysical data. These provided dramatic views of the Texas countryside under the influence of Texas' dominant industry.
Deep Under a Dark Sky, 30 x 24 in. Oil on canvas

Here's the invitation for my show held at Archway Gallery, then at 2517 University Avenue in the Rice Village, that opened on August 2 of 1985, 38 years ago tomorrow.
The title of this painting is Plains Heat, and I think it sold from that show.

Thanks to SHMM for this re-creation!
Earlier this week, we were honored to have members from the Alabama Coushatta Tribe of Texas join us to commemorate the 160th anniversary of Sam Houston’s death. Here is a side-by-side pic. To the right is the painting by local artist Lee Jamison Art and Illustrations that depicts the scene when the Alabama and Coushatta Indians came to visit Sam Houston a couple months before his death in July of 1863. On the left is from Wednesday’s events.
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