Beauford Delaney

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Beauford Delaney (December 30, 1901 – March 25, 1979) was an African American modernist painter. Older brother to Joseph Delaney (also a painter), he grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee. He moved to Boston and later New York, where he was a part of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1930s and 40s. Delaney moved to Paris in 1953 and lived the remainder of his life as an expatriate. Over time, his work grew more abstract, perhaps reflecting his depression and alcoholism. He died in a Paris asylum in 1979. After his death, his brother paid for his paintings to be brought back to the United States, and today Beauford's paintings are owned by private collectors, the New York Public Library, the National Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Beauford Delaney was close friends with James Baldwin and Henry Miller.

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