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James Brantley

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James Brantley
Born1945 (age 78–79)
Known forpainter
AwardsHallgarten Prize
Louis Fine Purchase Award
Websitewww.stanekgallery.com/master-artist-james-brantley/

James Brantley (born 1945, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.) is an American artist known for his painting.

Biography

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Brantley was born in 1945 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[1] He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Philadelphia College of Art, and the University of Pennsylvania.[2]

His work is in the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art,[3] the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,[4] and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.[5]

His work was included in the 2011 exhibition The Chemistry of Color: The Sorgenti Collection of Contemporary African-American Art at the Hudson River Museum[6] and the 2015 exhibition We Speak: Black Artists in Philadelphia, 1920s-1970s at the Woodmere Art Museum.[7]

References

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  1. ^ "James Brantley". AskArt. Retrieved 14 June 2022.
  2. ^ "James Brantley". Art in Embassies. U.S. Department of State. Retrieved 14 June 2022.
  3. ^ "James Brantley". Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art. Retrieved 14 June 2022.
  4. ^ "James Brantley". Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Retrieved 14 June 2022.
  5. ^ "James Brantley". Philadelphia Museum of Art. Retrieved 14 June 2022.
  6. ^ Gold, Sylviane (26 February 2011). "An Alchemy of Color and Craft". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 June 2022.
  7. ^ "We Speak: Black Artists in Philadelphia, 1920s-1970s". Woodmere Art Museum. Retrieved 14 June 2022.
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