Virtual Art Tour

At the Raymond James Financial Center

The Tom and Mary James/Raymond James Financial Art Collection, one of Florida’s largest private art collections, consists of over 1,850 pieces including original paintings, sculptures, and graphics (prints and posters). More than 95% of the collection is owned by Tom James, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Raymond James Financial, and his wife Mary. The collection is on display at the firm’s corporate headquarters in St. Petersburg, Florida. The art is placed on different floors of each campus building according to style and theme.

Mr. James has selected almost every piece of artwork himself. While some of the artists in the collection are now deceased, he believes buying works from living artists helps to sustain them in their profession.

Although the collection began in the late 1950s with predominately American artists, primarily from Florida, it has grown to include works by such artists as Alfredo Arreguin, Alexander Calder, Mihail Chemiakin, Salvador Dali, Jacob Lawrence, Roy Lichtenstein, Joan Miro, Leonardo Nierman, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Andy Warhol, Jamie Wyeth and Victor Vasarely, among others. In the mid 1980s, while on trips to Colorado and New Mexico, Mr. James began to collect Western and Southwestern art. At the present time, more than half of the collection consists of Western/Southwestern styles of art, including works by Roy Anderson, Earl Biss, J. D. Challenger, Glenna Goodacre, Allen Houser, Frank McCarthy, Dave McGary, Dan Namingha and Ray Swanson.

The James family, as well as Raymond James Financial, has long been a supporter of the arts. This year, for the fifth consecutive year, Raymond James Financial will be the major sponsor for the renowned Raymond James Gasparilla Festival of Arts. In addition, Mr. James is currently president of the Salvador Dali Museum Board of Directors.

While we are a financial institution and not a museum that is open to the public, we do try to accommodate those who wish to view the collection. For additional information about tours, please call Lexey Covell, tour coordinator, at 727-567-1363. While we cannot guarantee that all requests will be honored, a minimum of at least two weeks notice is necessary to schedule a tour.

For those who love art and cannot visit our campus, we will be featuring selected works on this site each month, along with information about the artists.

Reproduction of the material on this site is prohibited.