About JAMES PHILIP HEAD

A graduate of the University of Maryland, the George Washington University Law School, and Georgetown Law School, Jim is a former practicing attorney who serves as counsel and Tax Managing Director in the National Tax Office of BDO USA, PC, a big five accounting firm.

Jim is a frequent speaker and author on tax, estate planning strategy and other topics including illustration art, late 19th /early 20th century artists and their models, art valuation, and estate planning for collectors of art. Selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© beginning in 2016, Jim is a Trustee of the Board of Trustees of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society and a member of the Art Advisory Board of the George Mason University Art School.

After more than 15 years of exhaustive research and the hundreds of interviews required to bring the Christy legacy to life, Jim is currently completing work on Reaching the Summit, the last volume of the An Affair with Beauty trilogy.

He lives in Chantilly, Virginia, with his wife, Rita, and daughter, Christianna. Occasionally, the pipe-smoking spirit of Howard Chandler Christy makes his presence known . . . .