Mitchell Jamieson (1915–1976) was an American painter who worked for the Federal Art Project during the Great Depression, before studying painting in Mexico and returning to the United States.

Afterwards he was a pioneering artist in the NASA Art Program[3] before and after his devastating work chronicling the impact of the Vietnam War on the peoples of Southeast Asia in his series "The Plague."

In the 1930s, Jamieson traveled first to Key West, then on to the United States Virgin Islands to paint under the Treasury Department's Art Project.

Before and after his Mexican sojourn, Jamieson received commissions to paint murals for post offices in Upper Marlboro and Laurel, Maryland; and Willard, Ohio.

Yet anything that is worthwhile or that has the bite of reality in the work produced under these circumstances probably derives from a constant effort to share as fully as possible in the lives and experiences of others".

According to the Naval History and Heritage Command,[2] "Unlike the mostly sympathetic images Jamieson made of the Second World War, the Vietnam works are angry and accusatory.

Sadly, the depravity and inhumanity Jamieson witnessed in Vietnam and then depicted in The Plague series took its toll on the artist psychologically.

As journalist Paul Richard described the circumstances in the Washington Post: "On Feb. 4, 1976, the artist Mitchell Jamieson shot himself to death in his house in Alexandria.

Jamieson saw action, in Africa and Sicily, on Utah Beach and Iwo Jima, as a Navy combat artist during World War II.