Wildlife Artist

Phil Prentice was born in 1930 in Muncie Indiana. At the age of 12 he received a scholarship at the Dayton Art Institute to study under Cartoonist Al Capp and Milton Caniff. He went on to study in 1950 at the Pratt Art Institute, Brooklyn, New York. After a three year tour of duty in the Air Force he then studied at the Art Center School, Los Angeles. His decision that drafting was not going to be his career, led to his decision in 1966 to move into fine arts. Prentice was invited to show at the Festival of Arts in Laguna Beach, California. He became well known throughout the animal art world for his outstanding detailed oils of animals indigenous to Africa.