Educating Children about Beauford

In perusing the articles that Les Amis has published over the years, I came across a post on how museums use Beauford's art to reach out to children.

This inspired me to do a Google search on "Beauford Delaney" and "children." In doing so, I found three sites that are meant to serve as references for kids who want to learn about him.

Britannica Kids has a brief article that is identified as being appropriate for students in Grades 6-8. The 1953 B&W Carl Van Vechten photo portrait of Beauford accompanies this listing.

Portrait of Beauford Delaney
© Carl van Vechten 1953
Public domain

Kiddle Encyclopedia posted a much more extensive article about Beauford in December 2023. A table of "Quick Facts," illustrated by the Van Vechten portrait, appears at the top right of the Web page.

A table of contents appears at the left, beneath the introductory paragraph. It contains links to the various sections of the article - Biography (which is subdivided into "Early Life," "New York City, USA," "Paris, France," and "Mental Deterioriation"), Legacy, and The Beauford Delaney burial site.

Kiddle also has a Web page about Beauford's brother, Joseph, as well as the Knoxville Museum of Art.

The most colorful site on YouTube. In a video called "Kids Art Class - Draw a street scene," an educator teaches students from Wren Avenue Elementary about Beauford before explaining the concept of perspective through the use of Beauford's Untitled (Village Street Scene) (1948). 

 

Untitled (Village Street Scene)
(1948) Oil on canvas
Image from Swann Auction Galleries Web site
© Estate of Beauford Delaney
by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire,
Court Appointed Administrator

To visit these Websites, click on the links below:

Britannica Kids

Kiddle Encyclopedia

Kids Art Class - Draw a street scene