James Hubbell (artist)

[1][2][3] His own Pacific Rim Park on San Diego's Shelter Island, is the site where James Hubbell's Final Tribute and 3rd Annual Friendship Walk was held on August 24, 2024.

[5] Hubbell was influenced at an early age when a maternal aunt married into the Findlay family, who owned an art gallery in Kansas and two in New York City that specialized in American Western painters.

[5] Hubbell studied design and painting in 1951 for a year at the Whitney Art School in New Haven, Connecticut, until he was drafted into the U.S. Army, where he served in Korea in Headquarters Company and Troop Information Education, making posters and charts.

His art and architecture were installed in homes, schools, gardens, pavilions, nature centers, churches, monasteries, a sorority house, museums and peace parks in California, Mexico, and worldwide.

[16] In 2019, the San Diego County board of directors presented Hubbell with the "Peacemaker of the Year Award" for his international work on building friendship-themed public parks.