Tag: Beauford Delaney

• Artist a Day: Beauford Delaney

  

  Beauford Delaney was born in Knoxville TN in 1901 and raised in a southern Baptist family with two budding artists. Beauford and his brother had a strong aptitude for art and their skills were cultivated locally until the artist moved to Boston to continue his studies. Delaney would later settle in New York and become…

  cultureshockart

  February 9, 2020

  Art, Black Artists, black history, Contemporary Art, Museums, new york, Uncategorized

  Artist a Day, Beauford Delaney, Black Artists, Black History Month, Harlem Renaissance, james baldwin, Writers

• Artist a Day Challenge No. 24: Beauford Delaney x Ella Fitzgerald

  This painting by Beauford Delaney out of all his portraits of fellow artists really stuck out to me, not just because it is a beautiful piece, but I wonder why he chose to obscure the Queen of Jazz, Ella Fitzgerald amongst this colorful palate of brushstrokes.  Delaney’s work transitioned from figurative to abstract upon his…

  cultureshockart

  March 1, 2015

  Art, black history, Contemporary Art, Modern Art

  Beauford Delaney, Ella Fitzgerald, Harlem Renaissance, Jazz, new york artists, Paris