Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philip Jamison studied at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art. From 1961 to 1963, he was an instructor of watercolor at the Philadelphia College of Art. He was awarded membership in the National Academy of Design and the National Watercolor Society and was a contributor to American Artist magazine.

He is a resident of West Chester, Pennsylvania. (May 2005)

Sources include:
Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art
Terry Jamison, daughter of the artist

Philip Jamison was born 1925 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Education : Philadelphia Museum College 1950

Vocation : Instructor in watercolor at the Philadelphia Museum College of Art 1961-1963.

Exhibits : Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1949; Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts 1957; Hirschl and Adler Galleries 1959; Watercolor Boardwalk Show Atlantic City 1961; Philadelphia Water Color Club 1961; Allied Artists of America 1961; Sessler Gallery in Philadelphia 1963; Metropolitan Museum of Art 200 years of watercolor painting in America 1967; Cleveland Institute of Art 1968; West Chester State College 1969; Delaware Art Museum 1973; National Invitation Water Color Exhibit 1979

Awards : Bainbridge Award from Allied Artists of America 1958; Dawson Medal Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1959; Watercolor Medal of Honor Knickerbocker Artists 1961; Dana Medal Philadelphia Water Color Club; Associate National Academy of Design 1962; Childe Hassam Fun Purchase American Academy of Arts and Letters 1965; National Academy of Design Prize 1967; Morse Medal from National Academy of Design; NASA Artist for Apollo Soyuz launch at Cape Kennedy 1975; Mary S. Lit medal from American Watercolor Society


Source:
A Hirschl & Adler Galleries exhibit catalog from March of 1980

Philip Jamison (July 3, 1925 – September 3, 2021) was an American artist working primarily with watercolor as a medium. Typical scenes are landscapes, seascapes, interiors and flower arrangements.

Jamison was born in 1925 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, moving to West Chester, Pennsylvania, with his mother "Daisy" before the first grade where she raised him as a single parent. When Jamison completed high school in 1943, he was drafted into the United States Navy. After two and half years of service, he attended college under the G.I. Bill. Jamison graduated from the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art (later known as the University of the Arts) in 1950. This is where he reconnected with childhood friend Jane Gray. They were married in 1950. Jamison had three children, a son Philip III, who resides in West Chester, and identical twin daughters, Linda and Terry Jamison. They are also artists, and well known as claimed psychics.

He died in West Chester, Pennsylvania, in September 2021, at the age of 96.

Jamison's work has been widely exhibited in museums and galleries, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and are included in the permanent collections of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Delaware Art Museum, the National Air and Space Museum, etc. and in numerous private collections. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Design in 1970 and has been a member of the American Watercolor Society since 1957. He exhibited with The Hirschl & Adler Galleries in New York City for 25 years, including nine one-man shows. In 1975, he was selected by NASA to paint his impressions of the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project space launch in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

He was represented from 1958 to 1980 by The Hirschl & Adler Galleries in New York City and for over 20 years by Sessler's in Philadelphia. Jamison is the author of two books on the techniques of watercolor painting, written in 1980 and 1987.

Philip Jamison has displayed a one-man show at the Chester County Art Association, January 2011 to March 2011, entitled "Philip Jamison: Watercolors." These paintings were created during Jamison's summers in Maine.

Source: Wikipedia, Feb. 2022