certain details correct, but otherwise his paintings come directly from his own work. Harm closed production of prints from his major collection in the late 1990s, with 195 pieces in the collection. He continued to do occasional works as fundraisers for various organizations where he continued to work.Harm and his wife Millie left Kentucky in 1975 to move to Tucson Arizona for Millies health with his step daughters Cynthia and Elizabeth whom he eventually adopted.He owned a Guest Ranch in Catalina Arizona where he led guests, on horses, on trail rides in to the high dessert. He was a naturalist and herbalist like his father.Later 1979 Harm divorced and remarried Cathy who was from Canada. His son, Ray Harm Jr. (better known as "Hap"),stayed lives in Kentucky and sells prints from original works by his father that were not a part of the original major collection. 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. Harm died in Sonoita, Arizona on April 9, 2015. Honors Named as one of the 10 most influential artists of the century by Decor Magazine. Named Kentucky's Man of the Year in 1964. Commissioned to paint a family of bald eagles by President John F. Kennedy in 1962. References External links Ray Harm official web site Byron Crawford, The Courier-Journal: "Renowned bird artist to aid UofL group with sale of prints" 1926 births 2015 deaths 20th-century American painters American male painters 21st-century American painters 21st-century American male artists Painters from Kentucky American bird artists University of Kentucky faculty United States Navy personnel of World War II People from Randolph County, West Virginia 20th-century American male artists