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A career stretching back to 1979 is difficult to summarize in a few pages of a website. This will be a page with a dry accounting of the sort of things we show in resumes.
The photo here is courtesy of Richard Sanchez Pace.
My Story
Biographical Sketch:
Lee Jamison has been painting images of Texas in landscapes, murals, and historical works since 1982. He has done paintings and mural projects for clients such as The Driskill Hotel in Austin, the Mayborn Museum Complex of Baylor University in Waco, The Waco Mammoths National Monument, The First National Bank of Bastrop and the Bastrop County Historical Society and Museum, late president George H.W. Bush, and numerous other locations public and private throughout the state.
Lee's most recent murals are the Huntsville History Mural located at the corner of Sam Houston Avenue and Twelfth Street in Downtown Huntsville and the Rather Park/ Small Wonders floral mural on the 1200 block of University Avenue.
Jamison’s book, Ode to East Texas, published by Texas A&M Press, grew out of more than three and a half decades living in what he says is literally the Orient of Texas. He claims the landscape, cultures, and the people of the region are all filled with their own unique beauty. The book reflects his determination to rehabilitate East Texas as a subject in the canon of self-consciously “Texan” art. This focus has led to participation in the Center for the Advancement and Study of Early Texas Art, and to photography for books and catalogues on Texan artists such as Buck Schiwetz and Kathleen Blackshear. An emerging interest related to this association is study of the 5,700-year history of rock art in Texas and the Rio Grande watershed.
Having been based in Walker County, a favorite late home of the American hero and Andrew Jackson protégé Sam Houston, for four decades, the artist has taken a particular interest in the story of Houston’s life and his remarkable effect on both Texas and the rest of the United States. This interest led to series work on both Sam Houston and on the Texas Revolution. Of special interest in this regard is more than a dozen works completed specifically for the 2009 documentary, aired on PBS stations, “Sam Houston” and the 2025 “Interregnum” portrait for the Sam Houston Memorial Museum and Republic of Texas Presidential Library.
Jamison is an active founding member of Christ the King Methodist Church in Huntsville. He lives in Huntsville with his wife of 47 years, Melinda, and is a proud father of four and grandfather of three.
Resume
LEE JAMISON (b. 1957)
Birth Date: November 16, 1957
Birth Place: Shreveport, Louisiana
Current Hometown: Huntsville, Texas
Education
1977 AA, Art, Lon Morris College, Jacksonville, Texas
1979 BA, Art, Centenary College of Louisiana, Shreveport, Louisiana
Career Highlights
1997-8 Driskill Hotel Ballroom Murals and Ceiling, paintings, etc.
2004-2010 Mayborn Museum exhibits and Mammoth mural Baylor university- and Waco Mammoths National Monument murals.
2005-2019 Bastrop County history murals and exhibits, First National Bank of Bastrop and Bastrop County Historical Society Museum and Visitor’s Center.
2017 Published in Lee Jamison, Ode to East Texas (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2020).
2025 Huntsville History Mural, intersection of 12th Street and Sam Houston Avenue, Huntsville, Texas and Small Wonders/Rather Park Mural 1200 block of University Avenue, Huntsville
Selected Exhibitions
1987 Lee Jamison: Introductions, Altermann and Morris Galleries, Houston
2008-15 The Texas Aesthetic, Annual Exhibition, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston
2010 The Presence of Light: Sky and Light in the Texas Landscape, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston
2012 Contemporary Texas Regionalists, traveled: Haley Memorial Library & History Center, Midland; Gage Hotel, Marathon
2013 Restless Heart: Contemporary Texas Regionalism, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo (catalogue)
2013 Celebrating the Regionalist Legacy in Texas Art, William Reaves Fine Art and the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts at the Gage Hotel, Marathon
2013 Hill Country Love Affair: Interpretations of a Texas Heartland, William Reaves Fine Art, Houston
2017 Contemporary Texas Regionalism Winter Show, William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art, Houston
2017‒18 Of Texas Rivers and Texas Art, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo; Texas Capitol Ground Floor Rotunda, Austin; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Mayborn Museum, Baylor University, Waco (book by same title published by Texas A&M Press)
2018 Ode to East Texas, William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art, Houston (book by same title published by Texas A&M Press)
Selected Public Commissions and Collections
Scott E. Johnson Memorial Mural, Huntsville
Driskill Hotel Ballroom, Austin
Mayborn Museum Complex, (numerous murals and dioramas, significant work on installation of the museum, and work on development of the Emergence of Man Gallery), Baylor University, Waco
Bastrop County History Exhibits and Paintings, First National Bank and Bastrop County Historical Association, Bastrop
Waco Mammoths National Monument Murals, Waco
Sam Houston Memorial Museum and Presidential Library (Interregnum, rotunda portrait of Sam Houston, exhibits, and other works)
Artist Statement
I have been a full-time artist since 1982. In that time I’ve had three major specialties, all of which strike me as a kind of visual journalism: landscapes and portraits in oils and acrylics (particularly of East and Central Texas subjects), large murals, and historical and scientific murals and museum exhibits.
My regionalist landscapes have been the mainstay of a career spanning more than four decades.
The mural projects have included major works for the Driskill Hotel in Austin, The University of Texas at Austin, and the First National Bank of Bastrop.
My historical works draw on a love of Texas history and include numerous works on the Texas revolution and the life of Sam Houston.
Contact
I'm always looking for new and exciting opportunities. Let's connect.
281-639-2526