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.

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Beauford Delaney sketchbook circa 1950s. Contains meeting reminders for Jim and Bunny LeGros. Contains ink sketches of building rooftops, city street scenes, and still-lifes. Contains two oil pastels, one a yellow still-life vase of flowers, the second a plant sitting on a windowsill.

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Beauford Delaney sketchbook circa 1950s. Contains reminder for appointment with Ahmed Bioud. Contains ink sketches of city street scenes, portraiture studies, and jazz musicians. Contains one ink and oil pastel city landscape sketch.

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Beauford Delaney sketchbook dated 1951-1954. Contains ink and watercolor abstracts. Contains ink sketches of expressionistic city landscapes and classical anatomical and portrait studies.

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Beauford Delaney sketchbook dated 1950-1951. Contains appointment and meeting reminders, ink and graphite abstract sketches, portrait, and landscape studies.

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Beauford Delaney sketchbook dated 1938. Contains meditations of Beauford Delaney’s time spent with Selma Burke on a boat ride along the Harlem River and a trip to Ellis Wilson’s studio. Contains graphite sketches from the outing along the Harlem River, sketches of expressionistic landscapes, and classical anatomical and portrait studies. Artist Rex Goreleigh is also mentioned.

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Beauford Delaney sketchbook circa 1940s. Contains meditations on Walt Disney’s use of color animation, and a written excerpt from ‘Simplicity in Comparison’ by Alfred Stieglitz. Delaney contemplates cameras being a visceral tool for art. Contains ink sketches of city and rural landscapes and oil pastel abstracts.

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Beauford Delaney sketchbook circa 1950s. Contains ink sketches of expressionistic landscapes, abstract shapes, and classical anatomical and portrait studies. Of note is an abstract ink sketch titled ‘Mme Helene Baltrusaitis’.

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Inscription inside front cover reads "For Beauford, Noel 1965, Charley, Gita, Gordon. Herein I have listed only a few of your many friends. Yours to fill up the pages! Charley." Delaney did not add any addresses, but there is a sketch on the penultimate page and an address on the last page in a different hand.