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Saturday, August 21, 2021

Beauford on Art Sphere Inc.

Over the past few years, I've written a couple of posts about museums and other institutions providing art lessons inspired by Beauford's work:

Beauford-inspired Art Lessons

Museums Use Beauford's Art to Reach Out to Children

Today I found another example of this.

Art Sphere Inc. has a section on its Web site called Art Basics, through which it encourages youth to build art skills and express creativity through a series of brief online lessons and downloadable handouts. They have created a handout that presents Beauford's relationship with James Baldwin, talks about Beauford's painterly style, and encourages readers to use their imaginations to color images of Beauford and Baldwin. The black and white tracings are inspired by Errol Sawyer's photo portrait of Beauford and Beauford's 1945 portrait of Baldwin.

Beauford Delaney
Rue Guilleminot
France 1973
© Errol Sawyer

Portrait of James Baldwin
(1945) Oil on canvas
Philadelphia Museum of Art
© Estate of Beauford Delaney
by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire,
Court Appointed Administrator

Find the Art Sphere Inc. page here:

BEAUFORD DELANEY: A FAMOUS ARTIST AND CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST

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