Known for promoting environmental causes worldwide, George Sumner is an environmental impressionist painter whose unique style, attitude and talent have brought him international acclaim and the opportunity to share his vision with millions of people.

His paintings are in the public collections of the Gorbachev Foundation, Hoover Institute at Stanford University, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, the Smithsonian Institution, Hawaii Maritime Museum, Moscow University, the NASA George C. Marshall Space Flight Center and many others. He created the official paintings for the 50th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge, the 50th anniversary of the United Nations and the 100th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty.

His twenty-five years of efforts to "save the whales" through his vivid imagery has influenced a generation of marine artists and environmentalists.