Limited edition art prints are now the standard method of marketing paintings and similar works to the general public.

Harm was born Ray Auvil in Randolph County, West Virginia; his father was a concert violinist who also was a woodsman and herbalist.

His service in the United States Navy during World War II allowed him to take advantage of the GI Bill for continuing education.

On occasion, Harm said he has used museum models of wildlife to get certain details correct, but otherwise his paintings come directly from his own work.

[1] An archive of Harm's signed prints, newspaper clippings, field notes, black and white photographs, exhibition catalogs, gallery announcements, and 53 pieces of original correspondence is housed at the Filson Historical Society in Louisville.