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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
Beauford Delaney - Artist Info
About Beauford Delaney: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (9)
All MuseumsBeck Cultural Exchange Center
1927 Dandridge Ave.
Knoxville, TN 37915-1997Greenville County Museum of Art
420 College Street
Greenville, SC 29601Minneapolis Institute of Arts
2400 Third Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55404National Museum of American Art-Smithsonian
8th and G Streets NW
Washington, DC 20004The Baltimore Museum of Art
10 Art Museum Drive
Baltimore, MD 21218The Johnson Collection
100 Dunbar Street, Suite 203
Spartanburg, SC 29306The Newark Museum of Art
49 Washington Street
Newark, NJ 07102University of Michigan Museum of Art, UMMA
525 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1354