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James Lewicki (December 13, 1917 - December 12, 1979) was a twentieth century American artist and illustrator that worked for most of the magazines of his time and extensively for Life (magazine). His book illustrations include The Life Treasury of American Folklore, The World We Live In (Life magazine), The Golden Bough, written by Sir James Frazer and published by the Limited Editions Club (see The Heritage Press) and The Golden Book of Christmas Tales, written by his wife, Lillian. James explored Christmas themes throughout his career, both for magazines and as Christmas cards for the American Artists Group.

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 * Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor). The Artists' Bluebook: 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005. (AskART.com, Inc., 2005)


 * Davenport, Ray. Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition. 2005.

Reed, Walt (2001). The Illustrator in America, 1860-2000 The Society of Illustrators.

Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) (1999). Who's Who in American Art, 1564-1975, 3 volumes.

The World We Live In
A detailed record of nature is evident in Jim's paintings for the Life magazine series, The World We Live In, for which Jim was one of the featured illustrators. Jim's illustrations of undersea life appears on the cover and in Part 2, Miracle of the Sea, published on February 9, 1953, and in Part 4, The Canopy of Air, published on June 8, 1953.

After running successfully in Life, The World We Live In was released in book form in 1955, for which Jim did the cover art - a dramatic scene of a full solar eclipse presiding over a landscape of all manner of living creatures.