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Abstraction by Beauford Delaney

Abstraction

Beauford Delaney · 1940

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Artist
Beauford Delaney
Date
1940
Location
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Culture
United States
ART MOVEMENTS
Harlem Renaissance
THE ARTIST

Beauford Delaney

1901–1979 · United States

Modernist painter who captured Depression-era street life in Harlem and later created luminous abstractions in Paris.

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