Stock # A2896 - James Christensen Limited Edition Signed Print
"Lawrence Pretended Not to Notice That a Bear Had Become Attached to his Coat"
Hand-Signed in Pencil
Limited Edition Print Number 144 of 850
Original and Rare 1991 Edition

Bright Colors
Framed and Matted Under Glass
Print is approximately 11.0" tall x 18.0" wide
Frame is approximately 24.0" wide x 17.0" tall x 1.0" deep
About the Artist - James Christensen (1942-2017)
"This is one of those paintings that most people can relate to, although often for a different reason than you may expect.
I think everyone occasionally ignores problems in the hope that they will fade away,
but that’s not the only interpretation for the image.
When wildlife painter Bonnie Marris saw this painting she cried,
“That poor bear! This is the third guy he’s gotten attached to this week and this isn’t even his neighborhood!
Did you ever think about that?”
Personal experience has a major influence on people’s interpretation of the painting’s message.
When I gave a talk to third graders about trusting their ideas, I asked them what they thought Lawrence … was about.
One little girl said, “You shouldn’t take pets home without asking your mom.”" - JCC
Inspired by the world’s myths, fables and tales of imagination, artist James C. Christensen wanted his work to
add up to more than a beautiful—if sometimes ‘curious’ looking work of art.
Having taught art professionally for over 20 years, he liked to think of the world as his classroom.
His hope was that through whatever he creates—be it a porcelain, fine art print or book—
he can convey a message, inspiration or a simple laugh.
He believed that teaching people to use their imagination helps us find solutions to sooth the stresses of everyday life—
or get a little lift to help us keep going.
In short: all things are possible when you share Jim Christensen’s philosophy that “Believing is Seeing.”
James Christensen was born in 1942 and raised in Culver City, California.
He studied painting at Brigham Young University and, for a while,
the University of California at Los Angeles before finishing his formal education at BYU.
Since then, he has had one-man shows in the West and the Northeast,
and his work is prized in collections throughout the U.S. and Europe.
The artist had been commissioned by both Time/Life Books and Omni to create illustrations for their publications
and his work has appeared in the prestigious American Illustration Annual and Japan’s Outstanding American Illustrators. Christensen has also won all the professional art honors the World Science Fiction Convention can bestow,
as well as multiple Chesley Awards from the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists.
James Christensen’s fine art now appears as works of art in porcelain from The Greenwich Workshop Collection,
artist-inspired products such as note cards, silk ties and books.
The first, A Journey of the Imagination: The Art of James Christensen, was published to great acclaim in 1994.
His second, the adventure fantasy Voyage of the Basset, has more than 75,000 copies in print.
His subsequent book include the inventive Rhymes & Reasons, published in May 1997,
Parables (written by Robert Millet, 1999), The Personal Illumination Series and The Personal Illumination Journal (2000),
a series of interactive journals, A Shakespeare Sketchbook (2001) and James Christensen,
Foremost Fantasy Artist (2001).
Christensen was designated as a “Utah Art Treasure,” one of Utah’s Top 100 Artists by the
Springville Museum of Art and received the Governor’s Award for Art awarded by the Utah Arts Council
recognizing the significance of Christensen’s artwork to Utah’s cultural communities.
He was inducted into the U.S. Art magazine’s Hall of Fame.
Jim and his wife, Carole, co-chair the Mormon Arts Foundation.