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Saturday, May 2, 2020

Rachel's Musings: Three Articles about Beauford

Rachel Cohen is the author of A Chance Meeting, a book in which she examines Beauford's relationship with James Baldwin and also describes Beauford's encounter with W. E. B. Du Bois. She was one of the invited speakers at the recent University of Tennessee Knoxville symposium on Beauford and James Baldwin entitled "In A Speculative Light."

When she was a professor at Sarah Lawrence College, Cohen granted Les Amis de Beauford Delaney an exclusive interview:

Rachel Cohen's Tribute to Beauford

Cohen has recently published three articles in which she examines one or more aspects of Beauford's work.

In "'Here is a man who could do whatever interested him in paint’ – on the paintings of Beauford Delaney," she discusses Through the Unusual Door, the Knoxville Museum of art exhibition that opened this February.

Exhibition room for Through the Unusual Door
© Les Amis de Beauford Delaney

In "Beauford Delaney Close Looking," she marvels over the 1965 green and yellow abstract held by the Art Institute of Chicago.


Untitled
(1965) Oil on canvas
© Estate of Beauford Delaney
by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire
Court Appointed Administrator
Image courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago

And in "Delaney and Morisot Ochre: This Week in Self-Portraits," she comments on the use of ochre pigment in Beauford's work and the work of Berthe Morisot.


Self-Portrait
(1962) oil on canvas
© Estate of Beauford Delaney
by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire
Court Appointed Administrator
Image courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York , NY

Each article is rich with photos and observations. Enjoy them!

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