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Jim Seward
James Seward was born in Alabama and
raised in Tennessee. He spent his summers with his grandparents in
the wild back-country of Alabama. When he was six, his grandfather
bought him his first set of paints, and as a young child he often
painted his grandparents by lamplight, to their great astonishment.
"From the time I was five years old, I was continually painting and
drawing in that great environment," the artist fondly remembers.
After military service, Seward spent a year studying art under
Howard Boyd Johnson at Watkins Institute in Nashville. In 1947, he
enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago, where he met his wife,
Lyn. A year later they were married. After graduation, Seward
apprenticed at two Chicago commercial art studios, but in 1954, the
family moved to Cleveland, Ohio. After a year with an agency, he
joined Union Gospel Press for the next six years. Since that time,
Seward has been self-employed as a freelance illustrator and painter
and has created works for most of the large Protestant denominations
including Standard Publishing in Cincinnati, the Methodists and
Baptists in Nashville, the Concordia Lutherans in St. Louis, and the
Nazarene Publishing House.
Although the artist had attended church since childhood, after
leaving for the Navy in 1944 he dropped his church attendance. In
1953, two former friends with whom he'd lost contact felt moved to
pray for his salvation. In Cleveland, James and his family had moved
near a very devout Christian. Out of friendship they attended church
with him, and in 1954, Jim and Lyn gave their lives to Christ.
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