Beauford Delaney
American painter
Beauford Delaney was an American modernist painter. He is remembered for his work with the Harlem Renaissance in the 1930s and 1940s, as well as his later works in abstract expressionism following his move to Paris in the 1950s. Beauford's younger... Wikipedia
Born: December 30, 1901, Knoxville, TN
Died: March 26, 1979 (age 77 years), Paris, France
Period: Harlem Renaissance
Siblings: Joseph Delaney
Known for: Painting
Resting place: Thiais Cemetery; Paris, France
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His paintings of the late 1940s consisted largely of street scenes and interiors executed in a thick, impasto technique with broad areas of pure bright colors.
Beauford Delaney was an American Harlem Renaissance painter known for his colorful Modernist compositions and distinctive approach to figuration.