D. Jeffrey Mims

D. Jeffrey Mims is a painter, educator, lecturer, and muralist working as a classical realist.

Biography

Mims attended the Rhode Island School of Design and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In 1976, he received an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grant to support his independent study in the museums of England, France, and Italy. In 1981, he returned to Florence, Italy where he studied with the American painter Benjamin F. Long and received critiques from Long's Italian mentor, Pietro Annigoni.

Academy

D. Jeffrey Mims is the founder and director of the Academy of Classical Design in Southern Pines, North Carolina. The Academy is a school of fine art with an emphasis on traditional mural painting and architectural decoration. The school began as Mims Studios in 2000 and was re-structured in 2011 as the Academy of Classical Design. As of 2023, the Academy will be temporarily closed for a period of two years to allow for the completion of the painted ceiling decorations.

Selected writings

2016 "Creating a Classical Academy" Traditional Building Magazine. April 2016.
2010 "Caput Mundi " Fine Art Connoisseur. July 2010. pp. 41–44
2006 "Slow Painting / A Deliberate Renaissance" Oglethorpe University Museum, Atlanta, Georgia—catalogue with contributed essay.