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Overview The Beauford Delaney Papers (1909-1991) consists of family, personal, and professional correspondence, photographs, sketchbooks and notebooks, artwork, exhibition material and biographical records created or collected by the Knoxville-born, Black artist Beauford Delaney (1901-1979), now regarded as one of the major modernist painters of his time. Delaney befriended and was admired by many cultural figures, and the collection contains letters with influential artists and gallerists...