About this artwork
After living and working for years in New York, where he painted in a boldly expressionistic figurative style (see his Self-Portrait, 1991.27), Beauford Delaney moved to Paris in 1953, seeking greater personal and artistic freedom. There he joined a group of African American expatriates, including Richard Wright and James Baldwin, and embraced abstraction, producing works that explore different effects of color and light. This composition features a vibrant yellow palette typical of Delaney’s work; yellow was his preferred hue, and it carried associations with the sun and held a personal, spiritual significance. Interweaving the yellow with green and orange pigments, he created a lyrical, tapestry-like effect of layered brushwork.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Arts of the Americas
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Artist
- Beauford Delaney
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Title
- Untitled
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1965
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Medium
- Oil on canvas
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Dimensions
- 53.3 × 66 cm (21 × 26 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Clarence S. Wilson Jr. and Helena Chapellín Wilson
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Reference Number
- 1992.282
Extended information about this artwork
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