Monday Morning Art: Beauford Delaney

Self-Portrait, Yaddo 1950 Pastel, watercolor and charcoal on paper, 15 x 12 in.

Born :December 30, 1901(1901-12-30)

Knoxville,Tennesse

Died: March 25, 1979 (aged 77)Paris

Field: Painting

Beauford Delaney (1901-1979), American painter, known for his colorful abstractions and expressive portraits. Influenced by the rhythms of Jazz music, Delaney’s work is characterized by thickly applied bright color that results in a richly textured canvas. As a young artist Delaney lived in New York's Harlem and Greenwich Village. He supported himself by painting portraits of a spectrum of New York notables and established close relationships with Village artists and literati. Delaney's relationship with abstraction predated the notorious Abstract Expressionist movement, positioning him as a forerunner of one of the most important ideological and stylistic developments in twentieth-century American art. Untitled. 1958-59Oil on paper, laid down on canvas, 60 x 44 in.

Untitled. 1956 Watercolor and gouache on paper, 24 x 16 in.

Untitled 1954 Oil on raincoat fragment, 18 1/8 x 21 in.

Washington Square 1948 Oil on canvas, 25 x 30 in.

Self-Portrait 1944Oil on canvas 68.6 x 57.2 cm