Mitchell Jamieson

Mitchell Jamieson (1915-1976) was an American painter.

Jamieson was born in Kensington, Maryland, in 1915. He studied at the Abbott School of Art and the Corcoran School of Art. In the 1930s, he traveled to Key West and the United States Virgin Islands to paint below the Treasury Department's Art Project, and time-honored commissions to paint murals for publish offices in Upper Marlboro and Laurel, Maryland; Willard, Ohio; and at the Main Interior Building in Washington, D.C. His works are in collections at the White House, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Seattle Art Museum.

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 well-known concert at the Lincoln Memorial upon April 9, 1939. Titled An Incident in Contemporary American Life, the mural is still on view to the public who visit the building.

During World War II, Jamieson served as a combat artist in the U.S. Navy. He sketched and painted the occupation upon North Africa, the offensive of Sicily, the raid of France, and the Okinawa invasion.

Jamieson died in 1976.

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