Background
Jamieson was born in Linden, Virginia, in 1915.
Jamieson was born in Linden, Virginia, in 1915.
He studied at the Abbott School of Art and the Corcoran School of Artist
In the 1930s, he traveled to Key West and the United States Virgin Islands to paint under the Treasury Department"s Art Project, and received commissions to paint murals for post offices in Upper Marlboro and Laurel, Maryland. Willard, Ohio; and at the Main Interior Building in Washington, District of Columbia Jamieson was commissioned to paint a mural in what is now the Stewart Lee Udall Department of the Interior Building to commemorate Marion Anderson"s famous concert at the Lincoln Memorial on April 9, 1939. Titled “An Incident in Contemporary American Life”, the mural is still on view to the public who visit the building.
Jamieson died in 1976.