James Brantley (born 1945,

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, U.S.) is an American artist known for his

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Biography

Brantley was born in 1945 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied at the

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, the

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, and the

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. His work is in the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art, the

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, and the

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. His work was included in the 2011 exhibition ''The Chemistry of Color: The Sorgenti Collection of Contemporary African-American Art'' at the

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and the 2015 exhibition '' We Speak: Black Artists in Philadelphia, 1920s-1970s'' at the

Woodmere Art Museum Woodmere Art Museum, located in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has a collection of paintings, prints, sculpture and photographs focusing on artists from the Delaware Valley and includes works by Thomas Pollock Anshutz, ...

References

External links

James Brantley discusses his career and art
at the

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