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1901 Knoxville, Tennessee - 1979 Paris, France. Known for: Lyrical abstract painting, city scenes-jazz.
Born in 1901, Beauford Delaney, an expatriate African-American painter, spent his childhood and teen years in Knoxville, Tennessee. He studied at the Massachusetts Normal School in Boston, in 1924,... Read full biography
Born in 1901, Beauford Delaney, an expatriate African-American painter, spent his childhood and teen years in Knoxville, Tennessee. He studied at the Massachusetts Normal School in Boston, in 1924, moving to Harlem and other New York City locations in 1929. In 1953, he went permanently to live in... Read full biography
Born in 1901, Beauford Delaney, an expatriate African-American painter, spent his childhood and teen years in Knoxville, Tennessee. He studied at the Massachusetts Normal School in Boston, in 1924, moving to Harlem and other New York City locations in 1929. In 1953, he went permanently to live in France, mainly Paris. He died there on March 25, 1979. Among many intellectuals Delaney knew as a kindred soul, friend and mentor, were James Baldwin, then a young author, who became a lifelong friend.... Read full biography
Born in 1901, Beauford Delaney, an expatriate African-American painter, spent his childhood and teen years in Knoxville, Tennessee. He studied at the Massachusetts Normal School in Boston, in 1924, moving to Harlem and other New York City locations in 1929. In 1953, he went permanently to live in France, mainly Paris. He died there on March 25, 1979. Among many intellectuals Delaney knew as a kindred soul, friend and mentor, were James Baldwin, then a young author, who became a lifelong friend. Writer Henry Miller introduced many people to Delaney in his essay The Amazing and Invariable Beauford Delaney. Early critics of Delaney's paintings lauded his wit and eye, yet tended to pigeon-hole him as a "Negro artist." A natural draughtsman, he... Read full biography
Born in 1901, Beauford Delaney, an expatriate African-American painter, spent his childhood and teen years in Knoxville, Tennessee. He studied at the Massachusetts Normal School in Boston, in 1924, moving to Harlem and other New York City locations in 1929. In 1953, he went permanently to live in France, mainly Paris. He died there on March 25, 1979. Among many intellectuals Delaney knew as a kindred soul, friend and mentor, were James Baldwin, then a young author, who became a lifelong friend. Writer Henry Miller introduced many people to Delaney in his essay The Amazing and Invariable Beauford Delaney. Early critics of Delaney's paintings lauded his wit and eye, yet tended to pigeon-hole him as a "Negro artist." A natural draughtsman, he went beyond the rendering of likeness to the search for feelings, states of mind and being,... Read full biography
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Keywords (45)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
Art Style
- •Abstract Figurative, Human Figure
- •Abstraction and Realism; Semi Abstract
- •Expressive, Expressionist, Expressionism
- •Luminous, Luminism
Art Subject
- •Black, African Culture, Figure, Genre, Civil Rights
- •Caricatures
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •New York City
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Urban Landscape, Cityscape
- •Urban Scene, City Genre
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Europe
- •Expatriate from USA or Canada
Art Association
- •Society of Independent Artists-
Art Teacher
- •John Sloan
- •Thomas Hart Benton
Art School
- •Art Students League of New York, Student
- •Lowell Institute-Boston, Student
Awards/Recognition
- •Yaddo Resident Artist
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
- •Axelrod Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- •Evans-Tibbs Collections
- •Schomburg Collection
Added Description
- •Died Impoverished
- •Mural Specialty
- •WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Black, African-American and/or Caribbean
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Society of Independent Artists--
Exhibition of Museum
- •Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
- •Harmon Foundation, Harlem
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition of Special Group
- •American Negro Exposition, Chicago 1940
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts