{{short description|American artist}} {{Infobox artist | name = James Brantley | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1945}} | birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = | education = Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia College of Art, University of Pennsylvania | field = painter | training = | movement = | works = | patrons = | awards = Hallgarten Prize<br>Louis Fine Purchase Award | spouse = | partner = | website = {{url|https://www.stanekgallery.com/master-artist-james-brantley/}} }}
'''James Brantley''' (born 1945, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.) is an American artist known for his painting.
==Biography== Brantley was born in 1945 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.<ref name="AskArt">{{cite web |title=James Brantley |url=https://www.askart.com/artist/James_Sherman_Brantley/109771/James_Sherman_Brantley.aspx |website=AskArt |access-date=14 June 2022}}</ref> He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Philadelphia College of Art, and the University of Pennsylvania.<ref name="U.S. Department of State">{{cite web |title=James Brantley |url=https://art.state.gov/personnel/james_brantley/ |website=Art in Embassies |publisher=U.S. Department of State |access-date=14 June 2022}}</ref>
His work is in the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art,<ref name="Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art">{{cite web |title=James Brantley |url=https://pffcollection.com/artists/james-brantley/ |website=Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art |access-date=14 June 2022}}</ref> the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,<ref name="PAFA">{{cite web |title=James Brantley |url=https://www.pafa.org/museum/collection-artist/james-brantley |website=Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts |access-date=14 June 2022}}</ref> and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.<ref name="Philadelphia Museum of Art">{{cite web |title=James Brantley |url=https://www.philamuseum.org/search/collections?q=James%20Brantley |website=Philadelphia Museum of Art |access-date=14 June 2022}}</ref>
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<ref name="The New York Times">{{cite web |last1=Gold |first1=Sylviane |title=An Alchemy of Color and Craft |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/nyregion/27artwe.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=14 June 2022 |date=26 February 2011}}</ref> and the 2015 exhibition ''We Speak: Black Artists in Philadelphia, 1920s-1970s'' at the Woodmere Art Museum.<ref name="Woodmere Art Museum">{{cite web |title=We Speak: Black Artists in Philadelphia, 1920s-1970s|url=https://woodmereartmuseum.org/experience/exhibitions/we-speak-black-artists-in-philadelphia-1920s-1970s-95 |website=Woodmere Art Museum |access-date=14 June 2022 |language=en-gb}}</ref>
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==External links== * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emH_o5fnLoQ James Brantley discusses his career and art] at the Brandywine Workshop and Archives in 2011
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