James Brantley

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]

• James Brantley discusses his career and art at the Brandywine Workshop and Archives in 2011