Career

James was associated with the Salmagundi Club in Greenwich Village and the "New Hope School of Impressionism" in Buckinghamshire County, Pennsylvania. James worked as a New York businessman who founded a whole drug company and the Kings Highway Saving Bank, while pursuing painting as a lifelong hobby. He held his first public exhibition at the Salmagundi Club when he was 77 years old.

James died on April 8, 1951 in Magagnosc, France.