James Winn

James Winn (b. 1949) 

James Winn is active and lives in Illinois. Winn is known for landscapes and low horizons within his works.

“He paints the Midwestern flatlands; he invests this portion of the world, usually typecast as pedestrian and monotonous, with a hushed, ethereal beauty. His acrylics on paper depict earth and sky in subtle green and gray hues tinged with pink light. Delicate and highly detailed, . . .they evoke the heartland’s endurance, as well as its mystical soul.” 

 -Boston Globe review

Landscape artist James Winn attended the American Academy of Art in Chicago, Illinois, in 1967-69, then went on to Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois, where he received his bachelor’s degree in 1979, master’s of science in 1980 and a master’s of fine arts in 1982.

Winn has recently exhibited at the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glenco, Illinois; the Philbrook Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma; and at the University of Iowa Museum of Art in Ames, the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, and the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha to promote the book “Plain Pictures: Images of the American Prairie,” which was published in 1996 and included some of his work.

Winn’s work appears in collections at Arthur Andersen, Boston, Massachusetts; Cedar Rapids Art Museum, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Hallmark Cards, Kansas City, Missouri; Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois; The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock; and the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois.

Articles in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Boston Globe and the Palm Beach Post, just to name a few, have praised Winn’s artistic abilities. The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, also included some of Winn’s work in the book “Contemporary American Realist Drawings” in 2000.