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Saturday, April 12, 2014

Beauford at New York Live Arts Festival

Two quintessential paintings by Beauford will be displayed on April 24, 2014 in conjunction with a panel discussion on James Baldwin at the upcoming New York Live Arts Festival.

Portrait of James Baldwin
1965
Oil on canvas
25.5 x 21.25 inches
Signed and dated lower left
Image courtesy of Levis Fine Art
© Estate of Beauford Delaney
by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire,
Court Appointed Administrator

Two Women on a Bench
1970
Oil on canvas
21.25 x 25 inches
© Estate of Beauford Delaney
by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire,
Court Appointed Administrator

The 1965 Portrait of James Baldwin is one of several portraits* that Beauford painted of Baldwin. Two Women on a Bench is a painting from Beauford's Rosa Parks Series.

Following are the details about the event:

"Baldwin & Delaney"

Apr 24 at 2pm
$10
New York Live Arts Theater

Rachel Cohen, whose critically acclaimed A Chance Meeting braids a sequence of seminal encounters across American cultural history, including Baldwin’s with both Richard Avedon and Norman Mailer, will read from a third chapter, focusing on the young writer’s life-transforming encounter with the sublime painter Beauford Delaney, at the latter’s Greenwich Village apartment. Following her reading, Cohen will engage Diedra Harris-Kelley, Co-Director of the Romare Bearden Foundation and Baldwin and Delaney biographer David Leeming, in a conversation about Delaney’s enduring importance in Baldwin’s life.

To purchase tickets for this event, click here.

*For more information on Beauford's portraits of James Baldwin, click on the links below:

Beauford's Portraits of James Baldwin - Part 1
Beauford's Portraits of James Baldwin - Part 2

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