Beauford Potpourri 3

By receiving Google Alerts about Beauford and messages from persons interested in his life and work, I am able to collect tidbits of information and references to him that add to the growing data base about him. For the third time, I am publishing links to some of these references.

The Art Story - Beauford Delaney

The Art Story has published a thoughtful and easily digestible summary of Beauford's life and artistic influence. 

Beginning with his birth date, death date, and a timeline, 

it is presented in six sections:

Summary

Accomplishments 

Important Art

Biography 

Influences and Connections 

Useful Resources

It even mentions Les Amis de Beauford Delaney at the end of the biography section!

Hard/Soft/Lost: The Edges of Contemporary Culture / Inappropriate Edges: Beauford Delaney’s Untitled-1969

University of Tennessee Humanities Center Director Amy J. Elias wrote a scintillating evaluation of an untitled 1969 tempura work on paper that was shown in the Transcending Race & Time exhibition at the UT Downtown Gallery in 2020-2021.

Beauford used the front page of the May 24-25, 1969 edition of the International Herald Tribune as the support medium for this work, deliberately choosing to paint over the article published about the 1969 Greensboro Uprising.

Letters Reveal Beauford Delaney and Palmer Hayden’s Lifelong Friendship

This brief article presents images of correspondence by Palmer and Miriam Hayden that mentions Beauford as well as a letter that Beauford wrote to his brother, Joseph Delaney. It includes an image of paintings by Beauford and Hayden that were shown in proximity during the Dirty South exhibition that was hosted by the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, AK in 2022.

The Burning Bush
(1941) Oil on paperboard
© Estate of Beauford Delaney
by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire,
Court Appointed Administrator
The third link at the end of this article leads to a recording of an excellent conversation between Kristi McMillan, Director of Learning and Engagement at the Asheville Art Museum in North Carolina, and Dr. Mary Campbell, Professor of Art History at the University of Tennessee Knoxville regarding the Through the Unusual Door exhibition that was mounted by the Knoxville Museum of Art in 2020 and the Beauford Delaney's Metamorphosis into Freedom exhibition mounted by the Asheville Art Museum in 2021.