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James St John

James Allen St. John (c.1872 - 1957) was active/lived in Illinois, California / France.  James St John is known for Pulp-fiction illustration-fantasy, early landscape painting.

James Allen Saint John was born in Chicago, Illinois on October 1, 1872.  James was the son of artist Susan St John.  When quite  young he sailed to Paris with his mother to study at Academy Julian.  He arrived in California in 1887 and lived in the San Joaquin Valley where he further studied for three years with Joaquin Torrey and later studied at the Art Students League in New York. 

He became famous for illustrating Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan books.  He was professor of life drawing and illustration at the American Academy of Art before his death in Chicago on May 23, 1957. 

Exh: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1898, 1909, 1920; American Watercolor Society, 1898, 1901, 1902; Art Institute of Chicago, 1904-31; Panama-Pacific Int'l Expo (San Francisco), 1915; Chicago Galleries Ass'n, 1926, 1930; Businessmen's Art Ass'n (Chicago), 1927; Century of Progress (Chicago), 1933.

Source: Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
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