James Brantley
James Brantley (born 1945, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.) is an American artist known for his painting.
Also recorded as James Sherman Brantley
James Brantley
- Name
- James Brantley
- Born
- 1945
- Birthplace
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
- Education
- Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia College of Art, University of Pennsylvania
- Field
- painter
- Awards
- Hallgarten Prize Louis Fine Purchase Award
- Nationality
- United States
- Fields
- painting
- Languages
- English
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James Brantley (born 1945, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.) is an American artist known for his painting.
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• Name — James Brantley • Born — 1945 • Birthplace — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. • Education — Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia College of Art, University of Pennsylvania • Field — painter • Awards — Hallgarten Prize Louis Fine Purchase Award • Website — https: www.stanekgallery.com/master-artist-james-brantley/
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Brantley was born in 1945 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Philadelphia College of Art, and the University of Pennsylvania. His work is in the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. 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 and the 2015 exhibition We Speak: Black Artists in Philadelphia, 1920s-1970s at the Woodmere Art Museum.
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1945
James Brantley born at Philadelphia.
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- 1.James Brantley. AskArt.
- 2.U.S. Department of State. James Brantley. Art in Embassies.
- 3.James Brantley. Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art.
- 4.James Brantley. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
- 5.James Brantley. Philadelphia Museum of Art.
- 6.Gold, Sylviane. An Alchemy of Color and Craft. The New York Times. 26 February 2011.
- 7.We Speak: Black Artists in Philadelphia, 1920s-1970s. Woodmere Art Museum.
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Formation and teaching. Brantley studied at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The University of the Arts, University of Pennsylvania and Simon Gratz High School. Connected to 1 other published record in the VALÉORINE Encyclopedia.
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