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James Richard Blake

James Richard Blake (1932 - 2020) was active/lived in Texas, Colorado / France.  James Blake is known for Landscape painting.

James Blake studied art at Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles and Texas Christian University. He married Cornelia Cummins in 1963, and served in the United States Army 1956 - 1958.

James had his first one-person art exhibition in at the Electra Carlin Gallery in Fort Worth, Texas in 1961. In a career that spans four decades, and has taken him to Italy and France on a regular basis as well as the mountains of Colorado and the exotic backstreets of Eastern European or Africa, he incessantly makes discoveries to refresh and broaden his vision. 

In Paris, where he has lived for extended periods, for the past fifteen years, he has found inspiration in the city's gardens and parks.

Regarding Blake's work, former Kimbell Art Museum director, the late Dr. Edmund P. Pillsbury once wrote: "With an austere but variegated palette, augmented by the discipline of a consummate draftsman who wants every nuance of structure and texture revealed to the viewer, James   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1464 characters.]  Artist bio

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