Will Blake (born 1991) is an American painter best known for his representations of
American Civil War reenactment
American Civil War reenactment is an effort to recreate the appearance of a particular battle or other event associated with the American Civil War by hobbyists known (in the United States) as Civil War reenactors, or living historians.
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. He studied at the
Florence Academy of Art
The Florence Academy of Art is an American art school in Florence, in Tuscany in central Italy. It was started by Daniel Graves, an American painter, in 1991. Teaching is in the traditional style of the old masters. The school is a branch of t ...
in the summer of 2012, the
Glasgow School of Art
The Glasgow School of Art (GSA; gd, Sgoil-ealain Ghlaschu) is a higher education art school based in Glasgow, Scotland, offering undergraduate degrees, post-graduate awards (both taught and research-led), and PhDs in architecture, fine art, an ...
in the spring of 2013 and graduated from the
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univers ...
BFA painting program in 2014. His exhibition with artist Sean Tierney at Figure One, titled "Between the States" was his first showing of his Civil War reenactment work.
References
External links
Will Blake official website
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21st-century American painters
21st-century American male artists
1991 births
Living people
American male painters