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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 Beauford Delaney sketchbook dated March 1940. Contains meditations of Beauford Delaney’s time spent in his Greene Street apartment exploring thoughts of loneliness, suffering, humanity, love, and what it is to be an artist. Contains a list of influential artists including Vincent van Gogh, Louis Eilshemius, and Leonardo da Vinci, and composers Franz Schubert and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, whom Delaney is researching for the purpose of defining the ‘aura surrounding artistic personality'....

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Beauford Delaney sketchbook circa 1940. Contains charcoal sketches of expressionistic landscapes, and classical anatomical and portrait studies. Also includes some notes, one mentioning Cafe Society in Greenwich Village.

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Beauford Delaney notebook circa 1950s. Contains French language practice and a small newspaper cartoon clipping which was taped inside front cover.

Scope and Contents Beauford Delaney notebook circa 1950s. Contains a written account of Beauford Delaney meeting Henry Miller for the first time, their friendship, and the painting completed by Delaney of Miller in 1953. Beauford Delaney speaks of the connection between his friend Harry Herskowitz and Henry Miller. The notebook also contains an entry in which Delaney muses about a visit to the Art Museum at Harvard College and viewing renaissance drawings through an x-ray machine. The notebook contains a few...

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Beauford Delaney notebook circa 1970. Contains several abstract blue ink sketches and a notable blue ink sketch of the ‘Portrait de la Voisine’ (1970).

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Beauford Delaney notebook circa 1966. Contains a written account of a visit from Jim and Bunny LeGros to see Beauford Delaney on September 12, 1966. Contains several ink and graphite landscape and still-life studies. Contains charcoal portrait sketches.

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Beauford Delaney notebook circa 1968. Contains meditations about friendship with Henry Miller, gospel lyrics, to-do lists, and a few abstract ink sketches.

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Beauford Delaney notebook circa 1950s. Contains an ink sketch of an impressionistic landscape.

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Beauford Delaney notebook circa 1950s. Contains ink and graphite abstract sketches.

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Beauford Delaney sketchbook dated 1965-1966. Contains oil pastel abstracts and ink urban landscapes.

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Beauford Delaney notebook circa 1940s. Contains ink biomorphic portrait study and notes.

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Beauford Delaney sketchbook circa 1960s. Contains notes, ink portrait studies, rural and city landscapes, and a notable blue ink sketch of a church steeple present in a 1971 untitled oil painting.

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...