Just over a year ago, I had the pleasure to announce the opening of the virtual exhibition entitled Beauford Delaney: A Study in Portraiture on the Wells International Foundation's (WIF) Web site.
Curator Maija Brennan was a rising senior at Smith College when she created the exhibition during her 2019 WIF summer internship in Paris. Now employed as an oral history researcher focused on the history of African American art and artists at The HistoryMakers in Chicago, IL, she attributes her interest and skills in this area to the knowledge she acquired while working on A Study in Portraiture.
The HistoryMakers is a national 501(c)(3) non-profit research and educational institution committed to preserving and making widely accessible the untold personal stories of well-known and unsung African Americans. Their mission is to create a more inclusive record of American history.
Today, I'm bringing you a few of the portraits that Brennan selected for the virtual exhibition. Click on the hyperlinked title for each image to go to the exhibition and read the information there.
Charcoal on paper Knoxville Museum of Art 2017 purchase with funds provided by the Rachael Patterson Young Art Acquisition Reserve © Estate of Beauford Delaney by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire, Court Appointed Administrator Image courtesy of the Knoxville Museum of Art
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(circa 1930-35) Color pastels and charcoal on gray, textured wove paper
© Estate of Beauford Delaney
by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire,
Court Appointed Administrator
Image courtesy of Swann Auction Galleries
(1967) Oil on canvas
Image courtesy of Levis Fine Art
© Estate of Beauford Delaney,
by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire,
Court Appointed Administrator
(1965) Oil on canvas
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
© Estate of Beauford Delaney
by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire,
Court Appointed Administrator
Seventeen (17) additional portraits are featured in A Study in Portraiture. I strongly encourage you to visit the Wells International Foundation's Website to see them!
Beauford Delaney: A Study in Portraiture
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