title: James Atkins (artist)
text: # James Atkins (artist)
  
  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.
  
  