Jim Harrison has earned his living as an artist for more than fifty years, and his paintings are featured in museums and corporate art collections across the country including the State Museum of South Carolina, the Morris Museum of Art, the Maytag Corporation, Philip Morris Company, the Leo Burnett Company, and the Augusta National Golf Club. Harrison has been honored with the South Carolina Order of the Palmetto, declared "one of the Palmetto State's Chief Art Treasures" in a resolution by the South Carolina House of Representatives, and bestowed with an honorary doctorate from the University of South Carolina. Harrison is the author or illustrator of several books including Pathways to a Southern Coast and The Palmetto Tree and Its South Carolina Home.