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Birth
1901 (Knoxville, Tennessee)
Death
1979 (Paris, France)
Lived/Active
New York / France/Canada
Self portrait
Often Known For
lyrical abstract painting, city scenes-jazz
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Black American Artists
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Born in 1901, Beauford Delaney, an expatriate African-American painter,
spent his childhood and teen years in Knoxville, Tennessee. He
studied at the Massachusetts Normal School in Boston, in 1924, moving
to Harlem and other New York City locations in 1929. In 1953, he
went permanently to live in France, mainly Paris. He died there
on March 25, 1979.
Among many intellectuals Delaney knew as a
kindred soul, friend and mentor, were James Baldwin, then a young
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