James Atkins
African American artist
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| Intro | African American artist | ||||||
| Places | United States of America | ||||||
| is | Painter | ||||||
| Work field | Arts | ||||||
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| Birth | 1941, South Carolina, USA | ||||||
| Age | 84 years | ||||||
| Residence | South Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, USA | ||||||
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Biography
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.