Lot #13: "James Lumbers" Vintage Wilderness Art Prints

 James Lumbers graduated from the Ontario College of Art and worked for many years as an industrial and corporate designer. It was in the late 60s when he started to paint. When an opportunity was presented to him to join a scientific expedition to travel to the Sub Arctic to document the wildlife of the area. His love affair with the north was to continue for the following 10 years.In 1973 Lumbers was elected a Fellow of the Explorers Club of New York as a result of his visual documentation of peoples and wildlife of the far north. In the same year he was also elected a member of the Society of Animal Artists of New York.Lumbers is documented in Whos Who in American Art and A Dictionary of International Biographies in the UK, as well he has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows over the years and there have been documentaries, magazine and newspaper articles produced about the man and his art .By the late 70s Lumbers was recognized as one of Canadas best known realist painters. Over the years, he has had numerous exhibitions across Canada and through the United States. The one recurring theme in all his work is portraying our heritage in Canada and the traditions that make us what we are.