Untitled (1963), oil on masonite, 17.1 x 17.1 cm., gift of Mr. & Mrs. John H. Moore, London through the Ontario Heritage Foundation, 1978 James Kemp (1914-1983) was born in Toronto and died at London, Ontario. His art training began as a child with Arthur Lismer's Saturday morning art classes at the Ontario College of Art, later at the University of Toronto with H. S. Palmer and after graduation with special part-time classes at Danforth Technical School. Before the war, he moved to London where he began a life-long association with the London Life Insurance Company doing commercial art in the publication department. During the war, he joined the Royal Canadian Navy and returned to London in 1946. Kemp like Clare Bice, was deeply involved with both the local and national art scene as artist and organizer through the Western Art League, the Gallery Painting Group, the Artists' Workshop, the London Art Gallery Association, the Ontario Society of Artists and the Royal Canadian Academy. He traveled widely in Europe evolving a personal style loosely based in representation with strong tendencies toward abstraction. His work was mainly in oil pursuing landscape and figurative subjects.