New York, Kansas. 1899 - 1979
African-American genre painting, illustration, mural
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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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New York. 1909 - 1979
Non objective, ethnic genre-view painting
New York, Tennessee. 1904 - 1991
Street genre, figure, portrait, mural
Illinois, New York, California. 1918 - 1979
Black-American figure and genre and mural painting
District Of Columbia. 1891 - 1978
Non objective-optical imagery painting, teaching
Georgia, New York / France. 1900 - 1980
Southern poverty images-paintings and history murals
New York, Illinois. 1916 - 2015
Modernist social life genre and nude women painting, graphics
New York, North Carolina. 1907 - 1977
Abstract expressionist painting, portraits, lithography, murals
New York, Maine / France. 1890 - 1973
African-American figure, ethnic urban genre
District Of Columbia, Massachusetts / Haiti. 1905 - 1998
African figure-genre, landscape, still life and mask painting, teaching
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Brunswick / Canada. 1828 - 1901
Idealized landscape, marine, portrait and still life painting
New York, North Carolina. 1911 - 1988
Modernist African-American figure and landscape painting, collage
Kentucky, New York, Massachusetts / Italy. 1937 - 1966
Figurative expressionist painting, religion
Pennsylvania, Kansas / France. 1859 - 1937
Painting-religious, Orientalism, genre, figure, landscape
Virginia, Texas. 1924 - 2001
Narrative mural painting-African-American subjects
District Of Columbia, New York / Mexico. 1915 - 2012
Abstract sculpture, modernist figure and portrait painting, graphics
New York, Georgia. 1930 - 2006
Ethnic genre painting, abstraction, collage
District Of Columbia, Kentucky. 1933 - 2022
Abstract color field and drape painting, collage, graphics
Illinois, District Of Columbia. 1914 - 1985
Harlequin figure portrait paintings, clownsset design, playwright
New York, New Jersey. 1917 - 2000
Modernist naive urban genre-figure painting
Ohio, New Jersey, Florida, New Mexico. 1915 - 1999
Figure in desolate landscape painting, surrealism, teaching
New York, Florida. 1892 - 1962
African-American portrait sculpture, educator
New York, California, Mississippi / Jamaica. 1901 - 1989
Expresssionist monument and figure sculpture
California, Massachusetts. 1888 - 1967
Mod figure, sculptor, graphics, mural
California. Born 1926
Assemblage, collage-racial issues, cultural artifacts
New York. 1912 - 1963
Biomorphic abstract, early surreal
Michigan, New York. 1935 - 2005
Geometric abstract painting, collage reliefs
Alabama, Pennsylvania, California. 1915 - 2001
Modernist African-American genre and figure painting, printmaking
Pennsylvania / Canada. 1893 - 1965
Rural landscape and social realist painting and printmaking
New York. 1918 - 1989
Abstract figure, genre and portrait painting
Massachusetts, New Jersey. 1910 - 2007
Black-American street genre, prints
New York, California. 1924 - 2024
Modernist landscape-imagery