Chamise is a flowering plant native to the landscape that surrounds Ilan-Lael, Hubbell’s mountain home. Their springtime clusters of white flowers are part of the chaparral landscape that inspires Jim’s creativity.

Artist: James Hubbell (signed JTH)
Year: 1989
Materials: Watercolor on paper
Dimensions: 9 X 12 inches

A woman in a red frock wrapped in a blue robe with a heart-shaped horse in the background. Mountains and moon add to the mystery of this drawing.

Artist: James Hubbell (signed JTH)
Year: 2010
Materials: Pen and ink on paper
Dimensions: 8.5 x 11 inches
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A rushing river runs white from the Sierra high peaks. Waterfall is from Hubbell’s Sierra Nevada series. This painting can be viewed at the Santa Ysabel Art Gallery in Santa Ysabel, CA.

Artist: James Hubbell (signed JTH)
Year: 2007
Materials: Watercolor on paper
Dimensions: 10.25 x 7 inches

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The colors of autumn paint the Sierra high peaks. Falls Bishop Mountains is from Hubbell’s Sierra Nevada series. This painting can be viewed at the Santa Ysabel Art Gallery in Santa Ysabel, CA.

Artist: James Hubbell (signed JTH)
Year: 1999
Materials: Watercolor on paper
Dimensions: 9 x 12 inches
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Sunrise colors the Sierra’s pink in the early morning. Long Lake Cold Sunrise is from Hubbell’s Sierra Nevada series. This painting can be viewed at the Santa Ysabel Art Gallery in Santa Ysabel, CA.

Artist: James Hubbell (signed JTH)
Year: 1995
Materials: Watercolor on paper
Dimensions: 9 x 12 inches

Summer blossoms on the high slopes of the Sierras. Trail Above Midnight is from Hubbell’s Sierra Nevada series. This painting can be viewed at the Santa Ysabel Art Gallery in Santa Ysabel, CA.

Artist: James Hubbell (signed JTH)
Year: 1987
Materials: Watercolor on paper
Dimensions: 12 x 9 inches

From Hubbell’s mythological series, a woman’s face with waves of hair and clothes of plants

Artist: James Hubbell (signed JTH)
Year: 2007
Materials: Pen and ink on paper
Dimensions: 9.5 x 8 inches

The rugged Sierras with granite and snow and Owens Valley below. Bishop Trail Picture Puzzle is from Hubbell’s Sierra Nevada series. This painting can be viewed at the Santa Ysabel Art Gallery in Santa Ysabel, CA.

Artist: James Hubbell (signed JTH)
Year: 1995
Materials: Watercolor on paper
Dimensions: 15 x 11 inches

Mountains rise into clouds and sky with a lake in foreground. Lake Dorothy is from Hubbell’s Sierra Nevada series. This painting can be viewed at the Santa Ysabel Art Gallery in Santa Ysabel, CA.

Artist: James Hubbell (signed JTH)
Year: 1992
Materials: Watercolor on paper
Dimensions: 15 x 11 inches
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Lake Margaret is from Hubbell’s Sierra Nevada series. This painting can be viewed at the Santa Ysabel Art Gallery in Santa Ysabel, CA.

Artist: James Hubbell (signed JTH)
Year: 1995
Materials: Watercolor on paper
Dimensions: 19 x 23.75 inches

From Hubbell’s mythological series, a man’s face in profile resembles a mountain peak.

Artist: James Hubbell (signed JTH)
Year: 2015
Materials: Pen and ink on paper
Dimensions: 8 x 10 inches
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James Hubbell regularly visited the Sierra Nevada’s to hike, sketch and paint the inspiring landscape. Big Horn is from Hubbell’s Sierra Nevada series. This painting can be viewed at the Santa Ysabel Art Gallery in Santa Ysabel, CA.

Artist: James Hubbell (signed JTH)
Year: 1992
Materials: Watercolor on paper
Dimensions: 11 x 15 inches

The Volcan Mountain landscape has inspired hundreds of Hubbell watercolors. Here, the mountain shows off its early spring colors.

Artist: James Hubbell (signed JTH)
Year: 1998
Materials: Watercolor on paper
Dimensions: 11 x 15 inches

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Landscape painted from the Hubbell property looking east toward Volcan Mountain with a bright blue sky and there is a penciled bare tree in the foreground.

Artist: James Hubbell (signed JTH)
Year: 2020
Materials: Watercolor on paper
Dimensions: 10.25 X 14 inches

A late autumn sunset turns the mountains russet while the peaks of the Laguna Range are bathed in moonlight.

Artist: James Hubbell (signed JTH)
Year: 2010
Materials: Watercolor on paper
Dimensions: 9 x 12 inches

Landscape of Volcan Mountain on a stormy day, lots of purple and blue.

Artist: James Hubbell (signed JTH)
Year: 1992
Materials: Watercolor on paper
Dimensions: 9 x 12 inches

Pen and ink drawing where the roles of man and nature are reversed and moon and stars decorate oak limbs.

Artist: James Hubbell (signed JTH)
Year: 2001
Materials: Pen and ink on paper
Dimensions: 9 x 12 inches
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This landscape of the Santa Ysabel Preserve borders Ilan-Lael and reveals the rolling mountain scenery and golden hillsides that overlook Santa Ysabel valley.

Artist: James Hubbell (signed JTH)
Year: 1998
Materials: Watercolor on paper
Dimensions: 11 x 15 inches

The early morning dawn highlights the many layers of Volcan mountain with purple and orange hues.

Artist: James Hubbell (signed JTH)
Year: 2014
Materials: Watercolor on paper
Dimensions: 7 x 10 inches

A botanical/plant study of amaranth uses negative space to highlight the feathery top.

Artist: James Hubbell (signed JTH)
Year: 2008
Materials: Watercolor on Arches Something
Dimensions: 12 x 9 inches