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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Beauford Delaney (December 30, 1901 – March 26, 1979) was an American modernist painter. He is remembered for his work with the Harlem Renaissance in the 1930s and 1940s, as well as his later works in abstract expressionism following his move to Paris in the 1950s. Beauford's younger brother, Joseph, was also a noted painter. == Biography == === Early life === Beauford Delaney was born December 30, 1901, in Knoxville, Tennessee. Delaney's parents were prominent and respected…

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NOTABLE WORKS
Abstraction 1940 · Smithsonian American Art Museum Portrait of Joe Gould 1934 · Georgia Museum of Art Greene Street 1940 · Museum of Fine Arts Boston Portrait of Gaylord 1944 · Q847508 Portrait of James Baldwin 1945 · Philadelphia Museum of Art Can Fire in the Park 1946 · Smithsonian American Art Museum
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