Premier Artistic Historian
of The American West

When Jim Hamilton sculpted, the essence of the old West came alive. With tenacious integrity to his perceptions, Hamilton captured the emotions of a raw and rugged lifestyle and its legacy, its tenderness and drama working together to enhance what his eyes saw firsthand and what his heart felt. He effectively lured his viewers into tasting the stronger wine of a different time - a time when newcomers to the land were sculpting the contours of its personality and the face of its future. He shared from his very soul his firsthand experience of the settling of the American West.