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John F. Thamm J.F. Thamm Gallery 11 S. Washington St. Spokane, WA 99201
John F. Thamm lives in Spokane, Washington. He holds portrait-workshops in many areas of the USA and in Europe. John F. Thamm's passions are portrait painting, landscapes and social realism. His book”Vets-Fifty Portraits of Veterans and their Stories” will be released May, 2010.
Born in Wendell Idaho, Thamm studied with Herman Keys and went on to receive a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Idaho. He had a Ford Foundation Scholarship to the Art Student’s League in New York City and also studied in Los Angeles and Padua, Italy. Thamm has taught portrait workshops in the U.S., Mexico, the Netherlands and Germany, and owned art galleries on and off since 1964 in New York City’s Greenwich Village; Asbury Park, N.J.; Bisbee, Ariz.; Coeur d’Alene, Idaho and Spokane.
John has been a courtroom sketch artist for television and newspaper media including CNN, ABC Asscoatied Press, KREM, KXLY and the Spokesman Review. Notable trials he has covered are: Weaver-Harris Ruby Ridge Trial, Branch Davidian-Waco Trial, Wenatchee Sex-ring Trial, and the Aryan Nations vs Southern Proverty Law Center. At the end of the Ruby Ridge trial he completed a large portrait of Gerry Spence that hangs in his personal collection in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. John's experiences at these trials led to his social realism show: Operation HUM/CON.
As artist in residence for the City of Spokane in the 1980’s, Thamm completed a 26- by 4-foot mural in the Council Chambers’ waiting briefing room depicting the history of Spokane and a portrait of James Glover. The previous year, he created an 83-foot long exterior mural in Hillyard, illustrating Spokane’s railroad history. His last mural project was a series of portraits of Peaceful Valley residents on the pillars of the Maple Street Bridge.
John’s most recent project is the completion of fifty portraits of veterans that will be released as a book this May titled; “Vets-Fifty Portraits of Veterans and their Stories.” The 50 veterans – colonels, captains, sergeants, infantrymen, and servicemen and women from every branch of the armed forces – come from “all the wars, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm and Iraq.
A show of the paintings opened this summer at the Spokane Veterans Medical Hospital and was featured by the local PBS station-KSPS in the November Northwest Profiles series. The project can be viewed on the “Vets” project blogsite- http://johnthammstudios.blogspot.com/
Contact information: John Thamm, PO Box 1678, Spokane, WA 99210-1678,
phone (509) 868-7434, email: pinklloyd2@msn.com Website: www.jfthammstudios.com
“VETS” Project Blogsite: http://johnthammstudios.blogspot.com/
J. F. Thamm Gallery 11 S. Washington Street, Spokane, WA 99201
509-868-7434 Gallery Blogsite: http://jfthammgallery.blogspot.com/
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