Collection: William Schimmel Artist Biography and Art Gallery Collection

William Schimmel Jr., who prefers to be called “Schim”, is an American artist born in Tucson, Arizona in 1954, who creates artworks that are sure to leave viewers transfixed. His father, William Sr. (1906 - 1986) was a brilliant water colorist and art instructor. Like his father, William Schimmel also taught taught watercolor, oil, and acrylic landscape painting to thousands of students for over a decade until 1987, but now devotes full time to his art, which has become immensely popular throughout the world.  Snow leopards, white tigers, elephants and lions; the earth, the moon, galaxies and nebulae these are the subjects that leap off a William Schimmel canvas and into the hearts of those who see his work.. 

In 1991 the artwork of William Schimmel was shown at the Tokyo Art Expo in Japan. His work was immediately embraced by the Japanese, and a year later he was asked by Shogakukan, one of the largest book publishers in Japan, to write a children’s book using his artwork. Since then, Schimmel has produced six more books, and has traveled to Japan over 50 times, attending hundreds of art shows in dozens of cities throughout the four main islands of the country. Schimmel continues to attend art exhibitions every year with Japan’s number one fine-art company, Art Vivant. For over twenty years now, Schimmel has been painting in a style uniquely his own, expressing on canvas his love and awe for this incredible planet, its animals, and the universe that brought them into being.