Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art

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Ransome

Alias James Ransome

1961-Present

Works in the Collection

Nightjohn
2020

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Biography

Ransome was born in North Carolina and moved to a New Jersey suburb as a teenager. He graduated from Pratt Institute and was a tenured professor in the School of Visual Performing Arts at Syracuse University before retiring to pursue his dreams of being a studio artist.  He received his MFA in Studio Arts from Lesley University.

Ransome’s artwork centers on his African-American lineage, which is traced back to sharecroppers of the American South who migrated to Northern cities along the East Coast. His ​pictorial narratives are personal, yet the symbols he uses are universal and interplay with larger social, racial, ancestral, economic, and political histories that inform our nation to this day. 

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