Artist James Langley (’85) is freelance classicist who has taught at the Savannah College of Art and Design and the Franciscan University of Steubenville, and who has lectured at the University of Notre Dame, Brown University, and the Pontifical North American College in Rome. He studied the liberal arts at Thomas Aquinas College and in the Thomas More College Rome Program, and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Rhode Island School of Design and a master’s at the New York Academy of Art.

Drawing of a woman holding a bowl and a water-jar

Mr. Langley’s paintings, found in private collections and corporate buildings, include commissions for allegorical and religious themes. His work has been chosen for exhibit by the American Watercolor Society, the Institute of Classical Architecture, the National Civic Art Society, and the 50th International Eucharistic Congress in Dublin, Ireland. Previous exhibitions include: “James Langley: A Decade of Painting at the Butler Institute of American Art,” “Contemplating the Sacred: Religious Works of Contemporary Artists” at the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington, D.C., and “Reconquering Sacred Space”, an international juried group show at Palazzo Valentini in Rome.

Rendering of Our Lady of Guadalupe

A sample of Mr. Langley’s work can be found decorating the walls of the Neoclassical Galleries by Thomas Gordon Smith Architects in the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

Painting of a flower