About James Atkins
Born 1941. James Atkins is an American painter.
James Atkins (born 1941) is an American artist known for his paintings of Philadelphia. Mainly self-taught, Atkins attended art classes at Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial art school in South Philadelphia.
Atkins' work was included in the 2011 exhibition The Chemistry of Color: The Sorgenti Collection of Contemporary African-American Art at the Hudson River Museum. His work was also included in the 2015 exhibition We Speak: Black Artists in Philadelphia, 1920s–1970s at the Woodmere Art Museum.
His work is in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
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Who is James Atkins?
African American artist (born 1941)
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James Atkins was born in 1941 in South Carolina.
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James Atkins is a painter.
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