James N. Muir was born in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1945. He attended the United States Military Academy at West Point for one and half years and completed his Bachelors Degree at Indiana University in 1970, while also having served six years in both the U.S. Army and Air Force. His career as a sculptor began in 1980 in Arizona where he also owned his own bronze casting foundry,from 1982 to 1988. He has completed over 100 sculptures to date and his first book, “Lanterns Along The Path,” released in 2004, won the “Pinnacle Book Achievement Award” in the Inspirational Category. His second book is in-progress. There are over 20 lifesize and monumental sculptures of Muir’s located in public collections in Arizona alone, and more than 60 other lifesize and monumental in the U.S. and abroad.

Allegorical Art is a term Muir uses to describe his art as being filled with symbolic meaning. Bridging the centuries from his historical military subjects to today’s social, political and spiritual commentary, his sculptures speak eloquently of Duty, Honor, Courage, and Justice, but above all, of Truth and the ultimate triumph of the Human Spirit. He has built upon the recognition gained as an historical military sculptor to create an ever-expanding array of artistic commentary exemplifying the highest qualities of man. Whether historical or contemporary, “the golden thread that ties it all together is still my never-ending quest for the essence of life - for Truth in its purest form.”