Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Preview image of work. oil on canvas, Untitled 13691

2004.25

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Artist

Beauford Delaney (Knoxville, Tennessee, 1901 - 3/25/1979, Paris, France)

Title

Untitled

Creation Date

1960

Century

20th century

Dimensions

51 1/4 in. x 38 3/8 in. (130.18 cm x 97.47 cm)

Object Type

painting

Creation Place

North America, United States

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

Credit Line

Gift of halley k harrisburg, Class of 1990, and Michael Rosenfeld

Copyright

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Accession Number

2004.25

Beauford Delaney, who took classes with John Sloan at the Art Students League of New York in 1930, first made his mark as a member of the Harlem Renaissance. Like other African American artists of his generation, Delaney enjoyed traveling to Europe, looking to escape racial discrimination. With the encouragement of the writer James Baldwin, a close friend, he permanently moved to Paris in 1953. There, he developed an idiom that responded to American Abstract Expressionism and European Art Informel in lyrical abstract paintings of luminous colors that celebrated the beauty of light.