1999
Biography · Visual Arts
Michael Brantley
Biography
United States
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Biography
Michael Brantley is an American painter, known for his large-scale photorealistic oil paintings of African American jazz icons like Ella Fitzgerald and Freddie Hubbard. In 2015, Brantley was diagnosed with sarcoidosis and was initially denied insurance coverage through the Affordable Care Act.
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1982
1914–2003