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Beauford Delaney sketchbook circa 1950s. Contains ink sketches of expressionistic city landscapes and draft planning of artwork.

Scope and Contents Beauford Delaney notebook documenting life events and people met during the years 1955-1956. Contains travel information during Delaney’s time in France, Spain, and Italy. Delaney writes his personal account of Sunday sermons given by Reverend Samuel Delaney in Knoxville Tennessee, visits from friends (such as Dolly and Nina Hirschfeld), personal meditations on art, and daily to-do lists. The notebook contains a notable ink sketch of St. Michael's Steeple in Charleston, South Carolina...

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Beauford Delaney sketchbook from May 1960 documenting the names and sizes of thirty pieces of artwork and faint graphite drawing of the gallery layout of Galerie Paul Facchetti.

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Beauford Delaney sketchbook from December 1961. Sketches include draft planning for assorted abstracts, a beach scene , a sketch entitled ‘Joyful Christmas’, and a landscape sketch of a mountain range in front of a lake with a sailboat on the water.

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Beauford Delaney guestbook dated March 27, 1969, containing the signatures of attendees to the ‘Hommage à Beauford Delaney’ at the Centre Culturel Américain.

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Beauford Delaney sketchbook circa dated 1930s. Contains ink sketches of impressionistic chickens and a sketch of a man sitting atop a bullock cart.

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Beauford Delaney sketchbook circa 1930s. Contains crosshatching ink technique practice, graphite sketches of horses, and charcoal and graphite biomorphic studies of masculine and feminine bodies. The brown hue of graphite is caused by acidic paper.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Beauford Delaney Papers consist of the artists’ personal and professional papers from the 1900s through the 1970s. This includes correspondence with colleagues, friends and family; photographs of Beauford and others; sketchbooks and notebooks; loose sketches and other artworks; exhibition materials; and printed material collected by Delaney. The bulk of the collection consists of materials collected and created during Beauford’s time in Paris, where he lived from 1953 until his death in...