Daily News | Blake Bradford, tireless arts advocate, popular professor, writer, and mentor, has died at 52
Mr. Bradfordand spoke at conferences and on panels, and helped refurbish the Barnes Foundation’s new classrooms in Philadelphia. “If you want to pull up Cezanne images on the computer in the digital classroom and send students out to Gallery 8 [to actually see the Cezannes], you could do that,” he told the Daily News in 2012.
Born Oct. 4, 1970, in Ithaca, N.Y., Mr. Bradford lived near Chicago, St. Louis, and elsewhere before his family settled in Villanova when he was 15. He graduated from Harriton High School and earned a bachelor’s degree in art history from Williams College in Massachusetts in 1992 and a master’s degree in art history from the University of Texas at Austin in 2000.
He worked for a time at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Fabric Workshop and Museum. He met Luedke through a mutual friend about a decade ago, and they had twins Star and Cyrus in 2015. They married last year and moved recently to South Philadelphia. Mr. Bradford enjoyed many forms of music, especially contemporary jazz and improvised sounds, and he attended concerts and shopped for records with friends when he was young. He trained in the martial arts as an adult and liked to watch old boxing footage of Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, and other famous fighters.
He doted on his children, modeled curiosity and kindness at home, and was sentimental about the first date with his wife, keeping the receipt of their time at the Good Dog Bar in Philadelphia tucked safely away.In addition to his wife and children, Mr. Bradford is survived by his parents, Earle and Yvette; two brothers; and other relatives.Donations in his name may be made to the
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