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Philip Jamison, American Artist.

Background

Jamison, Philip was born on July 3, 1925 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Philip Duane and Daisy (McCadden) Jamison.

Education

Student, Philadelphia Museum School Art, 1946-1950.

Career

Instructor, Philadelphia College Art, 1961-1963.

Achievements

  • Philip Jamison has been listed as a notable artist by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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Membership

Served with United States Naval Reserve, 1943-1946. Member National Academy of Design (academician), American Watercolor Society (Lily Saportas award 1965, Mary S. Litt medal 1978, Larry Quackenbush Memorial award 1982, Edgar A. Whitney award 1984, Dale Meyers Cooper medal 1985, Bronze medal of honor 1994, Saunders/Waterford award, 1996), Philadelphia Water Color Club (Dawson Memorial prize 1977, George Gansworth Memorial prize 1981).

Connections

Married Jane B. Gray, October 11, 1950. Children: Philip Duane III, Terry Jane, Linda B.

Father:
Philip Duane Jamison

Mother:
Daisy (McCadden) Jamison

Spouse:
Jane B. Gray

child:
Terry Jane Jamison

child:
Linda B. Jamison

child:
Philip Duane III Jamison

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Awards

  • Recipient Dawson medal Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts, 1959, 77, Dana medal, 1961, first award National Arts Club, New York City, 1961. Lena A. Mason prize National Academy of Design, 1962, Samuel Finley Breese Morse medal National Academy of Design, 1969, Walter Biggs Memorial award National Academy of Design, 1982, William Church Osborn prize American Watercolor Society, 1961, 79, medal of Honor Knickerbocker Artists, New York City, 1961, Bainbridge award Allied Artists American, 1958, 60, first prize Wilmington Society Fine Arts, 1957, 59, 61, M.W. Zimmerman Memorial prize Philadelphia Watercolor Club, 1963, Gold medal honor Allied Artists American, 1964, Childe Hassam Fund purchase prize American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1965. Children's Film Society award, 1966, Edgar A. Whitney award, 1971, High Winds award, 1972, Whitney award, 1973. Ted Kautzky Memorial award, 1974, Ranger Fund purchase prize National Academy of Design, 1962, prize, 1967, Alfred Easton Poor award, 1999, Zella W. Pike award, 2003, Pike prize, 2003. Adolph and Clara Obrig award, 1974, Thornton Oakley Memorial prize Philadelphia Watercolor Club, 1967, Gold medal Franklin Mint Gallery American Art, 1974, Merit award National Watercolor Exhibition, Springfield (Illinois) Art Association, 1979.