Signed " JOSEPH DELANEY " ' Large FIGURE STUDY, Drawing, C. 1950 To 60 ' S
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Original and Signed "JOSEPH DELANEY" 'FIGURE STUDY 21" X 15" Viewable (actual paper is much larger under mat), original drawing, c. 1950-60. Artist used either ink or Paint (Can't tell)
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Joseph Delaney (African American Artist)
Birth place: Knoxville, TN (1904 - 1991)Addresses: NYCProfession: Painter, writerStudied: ASL, 1929-35 & contin...uing education; NY Univ., writing with Horce Coohn; also with George Bridgeman, Thomas Hart Benton & Alexander Brook.Exhibited: Wash. Square Shows, NYC, 1937-40; S.Indp.A., 1940, 1942, 1944; American Negro Expo., Chicago, IL, 1940; Mc Millen Galleries, NYC, 1941; Atlanta Univ., 1942, 1946 (prize); AFA traveling exh.; NAD, 1944, 1945; Greeenwich House, NYC, 1944 (prize); BM; Arizona Collection, MMA, 1942; Hotel Diplomat, 1948; Contemporary American Painters, WMAA, 1950; City Coll. of NY, 1967; Univ Tennessee, Knoxville, 1970; Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA, 1970; Studio Museum, Harlem, 1971. Awards: Rosenwald fellowship, 1942; NYC WPA Art" at Parsons School Design, 1977."Member: Soc.Independent Artists; Artists League .Am.; Art Student League New York (life member); Old Independent Art Soc.; Bumshell Art Group; Artists Equity Assn.Work: Atlanta Univ.; National Gallery, Smithsonian Inst., Washington, DC; Univ. Arizona, Tucson; Truman Library, Independence, MO; Huntington Hartford Collection, New York; NAD; MMA; Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville. Commissions: Environment, mural of 126th St & 7th Ave, Harlem Museum, New York, 1971. Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, the son of a Methodist preacher, Delaney renounced his family and moved to New York. Here he studied with Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League and thereafter devoted a career to figure drawing, portraiture, and to humorous interpretations of city life.Joseph Delaney’s impact on the New York art scene was notable. Though he didn’t arrive until a decade after the flowering of the Harlem Renaissance, he kept pace with a leading echelon of African American painters and graphic artists over a fifty-year period. This group included such veteran practitioners as Palmer Hayden, Ellis Wilson, Lois Mailou Jones, and, until his 1953 departure for Paris, Beauford Delaney. Late in his life, Joseph returned to his childhood roots, accepting a visiting artist’s appointment at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
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Joseph Delaney (African American Artist)
Birth place: Knoxville, TN (1904 - 1991)Addresses: NYCProfession: Painter, writerStudied: ASL, 1929-35 & contin...uing education; NY Univ., writing with Horce Coohn; also with George Bridgeman, Thomas Hart Benton & Alexander Brook.Exhibited: Wash. Square Shows, NYC, 1937-40; S.Indp.A., 1940, 1942, 1944; American Negro Expo., Chicago, IL, 1940; Mc Millen Galleries, NYC, 1941; Atlanta Univ., 1942, 1946 (prize); AFA traveling exh.; NAD, 1944, 1945; Greeenwich House, NYC, 1944 (prize); BM; Arizona Collection, MMA, 1942; Hotel Diplomat, 1948; Contemporary American Painters, WMAA, 1950; City Coll. of NY, 1967; Univ Tennessee, Knoxville, 1970; Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA, 1970; Studio Museum, Harlem, 1971. Awards: Rosenwald fellowship, 1942; NYC WPA Art" at Parsons School Design, 1977."Member: Soc.Independent Artists; Artists League .Am.; Art Student League New York (life member); Old Independent Art Soc.; Bumshell Art Group; Artists Equity Assn.Work: Atlanta Univ.; National Gallery, Smithsonian Inst., Washington, DC; Univ. Arizona, Tucson; Truman Library, Independence, MO; Huntington Hartford Collection, New York; NAD; MMA; Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville. Commissions: Environment, mural of 126th St & 7th Ave, Harlem Museum, New York, 1971. Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, the son of a Methodist preacher, Delaney renounced his family and moved to New York. Here he studied with Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League and thereafter devoted a career to figure drawing, portraiture, and to humorous interpretations of city life.Joseph Delaney’s impact on the New York art scene was notable. Though he didn’t arrive until a decade after the flowering of the Harlem Renaissance, he kept pace with a leading echelon of African American painters and graphic artists over a fifty-year period. This group included such veteran practitioners as Palmer Hayden, Ellis Wilson, Lois Mailou Jones, and, until his 1953 departure for Paris, Beauford Delaney. Late in his life, Joseph returned to his childhood roots, accepting a visiting artist’s appointment at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
