Mitchell Jamieson (1915–1976) was an American painter. 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.
Life
Jamieson was born in
Kensington, Maryland, in 1915. He studied at the
Abbott School of Art and the
Corcoran School of Art
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.
In the 1930s, he traveled to
Key West
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and the
United States Virgin Islands
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to paint under the
Treasury Department's Art Project, and received commissions to paint
mural
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Word mural in art
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s for post offices in
Upper Marlboro and
Laurel, Maryland;
Willard, Ohio; and at the
Main Interior Building in
Washington, D.C.
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His works are in collections at the
White House
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,
Corcoran Gallery of Art
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Overview
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,
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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,
Brooklyn Museum
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,
Whitney Museum of American Art
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, and the
Seattle Art Museum.
During World War II, Jamieson served as a combat artist in the U.S. Navy.
He sketched and painted the occupation on North Africa, the invasion of Sicily, the invasion of France, and the Okinawa invasion.
Jamieson died in 1976.
References
Biography
1915 births
1976 deaths
20th-century American painters
American male painters
People from Kensington, Maryland
Corcoran School of the Arts and Design alumni
Section of Painting and Sculpture artists
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