After graduating from the University of Michigan in 1961, (B.S. in Design), James F. McComb began a career in advertising design with J. Walter Thompson in Detroit (Ô61-Õ63), Meldrum & Fewsmith (Ô64-Õ70), Gardner Adv.., later Mary WellsÕ in St, Louis (Ô70- Ô76), and finally Leo Burnett in Chicago (Ô76-Õ94).
As McComb matured he won an assortment advertising prizes
both regional and national.
A self taught watercolorist McComb showed in local venues through Õ94 and after
leaving Burnett turned all his attention to painting, winning Best-of-Show in the Pittsburgh Watercolor SocietyÕs Show, The Sudars Prize of the Peoria Art Guild in Õ94. He has been included in exhibitions at the Salmagundi Club in New York, The Texas Watercolor Society, The Red River Watercolor Society, in Ô95. And in that winter the Watercolor Quarterly of ÒAmerican ArtistÓ featured an article on McCombÕs work. McComb has had Museum shows at Hiram College in Ohio and The Washington County Museum of Fine Art in Hagerstown, Maryland.
Throughout he has had one-man shows at The Atlantic Gallery of Georgetown, Washington D.C., The Tangerine Fine Arts in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania., The Wood Street Gallery in Chicago, and The Musikantow Gallery in Northwestern Indiana.
McComb has work hanging from Chicago to Mexico City, including works at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, The Booth Library at Eastern Illinois University, the Pennsylvania Auto AssociationÕs new headquarters in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and the Lakeland Regional Health Center in St.Joseph, Michigan.
The past several years McComb has been committed to teaching watercolor workshops at his studio in Union Pier. Michigan.
McComb and his wife Alene Valkanas divide time between their home in Chicago, where she directs The Illinois Arts Alliance, and Union Pier, Michigan. McCombÕs time, is spent working is his studio, tending gardens and doting on their two golden retrievers, MacTavish and Missy and Chatter, the feline family member.
As McComb matured he won an assortment advertising prizes
both regional and national.
A self taught watercolorist McComb showed in local venues through Õ94 and after
leaving Burnett turned all his attention to painting, winning Best-of-Show in the Pittsburgh Watercolor SocietyÕs Show, The Sudars Prize of the Peoria Art Guild in Õ94. He has been included in exhibitions at the Salmagundi Club in New York, The Texas Watercolor Society, The Red River Watercolor Society, in Ô95. And in that winter the Watercolor Quarterly of ÒAmerican ArtistÓ featured an article on McCombÕs work. McComb has had Museum shows at Hiram College in Ohio and The Washington County Museum of Fine Art in Hagerstown, Maryland.
Throughout he has had one-man shows at The Atlantic Gallery of Georgetown, Washington D.C., The Tangerine Fine Arts in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania., The Wood Street Gallery in Chicago, and The Musikantow Gallery in Northwestern Indiana.
McComb has work hanging from Chicago to Mexico City, including works at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, The Booth Library at Eastern Illinois University, the Pennsylvania Auto AssociationÕs new headquarters in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and the Lakeland Regional Health Center in St.Joseph, Michigan.
The past several years McComb has been committed to teaching watercolor workshops at his studio in Union Pier. Michigan.
McComb and his wife Alene Valkanas divide time between their home in Chicago, where she directs The Illinois Arts Alliance, and Union Pier, Michigan. McCombÕs time, is spent working is his studio, tending gardens and doting on their two golden retrievers, MacTavish and Missy and Chatter, the feline family member.
