Beauford Delaney was born on December 30, 1901 (to March 26, 1979). He was an important modernist painter remembered for his work during the Harlem Renaissance, as well as his later works in abstract expressionism following his move to Paris, France, in the 1950s. Beauford Delaney was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, the son of respected members of Knoxville’s Black community. His father, Samuel, was a barber and a Methodist minister, and his mother, Delia, was prominent in the church, and […]

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